Politicians urged to act as interactive map shows scale of global scrubber washwater discharges

The Washington DC-headquartered International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has issued a first-of-its-kind 28-page report, along with an interactive map, looking at the global distribution of washwater pollution caused by ships using exhaust gas cleaning systems. “The most popular type of scrubber, open loop, constantly discharges large amounts of washwater that is acidic and contains …

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