Pier 91

A long line of yellow taxicabs at Pier 91's Smith Cove Cruise Terminal greeted hoards of weary cruise ship passengers today as they disembarked the Carnival Spirit, the largest cruise ship docking weekly in Elliot Bay  this summer.

Some Carnival customers said they noticed the Spirit's crew making efforts to decrease water consumption and make recycling available to guests aboard the 2,124-passenger vessel.

Nora and Don Sheetz grab coffee after thier week-long

cruise on the Carnival Spirit.

"They always talk about water conservation, but I this is really the first time I've heard about recycling," said Brian Burk, a Florida resident who has gone on five previous cruises.

"We saw recycling on all the decks," said Jennifer Ditscheit, who came to the Pacific Northwest  cruise from Wisconsin. "And the crew reminded us."

Passenger Joellen Gianfrancisco added that signs posted in guests' staterooms gave passengers a visual reminder to limit their personal water consumption and reuse towels a few times before requesting replacements.

She echoed Ditscheit's on the accessibility of recycling aboard the Spirit, which has 1,028 staterooms on 13 passenger decks.

 "Recycling, I think they did it all,"" Gianfrancisco said.

Others noted the Spirit limited the amount of single-use dining products used at sea.