Shipping’s dirty secret: how ‘scrubbers’ clean the air – while contaminating the sea – the Guardian
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Told to reduce air pollution, the shipping industry could have switched to cleaner fuels – instead, many vessels turned to special devices that simply dump the toxins into the water.
The toxins do not just disappear. Aside from being acidic, scrubbers contain heavy metals that accumulate in marine food chains…