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Tag: Shipping emissions

Shipping’s dirty secret: how ‘scrubbers’ clean the air – while contaminating the sea – the Guardian

Exteriors of the Enchantment of the Seas and Mariner of the Seas in June 2018 (by Gregory Varnum, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons).

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…

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