This pollution is happening because of a sneaky device called a ‘scrubber,’ which ships use to wash the pollutants from their exhaust plume. This creates toxic fossil fuel washwater that can be up to 125,000 times more acidic than the surface of the ocean, and is highly carcinogenic. Where does this washwater go next? Into the ocean of course!
Cruises have already returned to Canada, jumpstarting the billions of litres of toxic washwater from scrubbers that's dumped in the ocean every year.
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