US EditionPlastic and Fireworks: so Much Garbage Really Swims in the Rhine and Gets Into the Sea
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So far, the amount could only be estimated, now there are accurate data thanks to Citizen Science. The amount is much larger than previously assumed – and a very special waste type stands out outside of plastic.
Over a million glass bottles and hundreds of thousands of packagings per year: A new study shows how much garbage really floats through the Rhine. Engineers around the world are working on solutions that free rivers from plastic – one is already in use before Cologne. The article 53,000 garbage parts per day: How engineers now want to save the Rhine appeared first on ingenieur.de - Job market and news portal for engineers.
Drastic pollution: In the Rhine, about 250 times more waste is swimming than previously estimated, as measurements of a floating waste trap reveal. Thus, up to 3,300 tons of waste per year drift down the river – microplastics are not included. This corresponds to ten tons or 53,000 individual waste parts per day – from wood and cardboard residues to plastic parts and bags to glass bottles. A large part of this river waste comes from private indi…
The fact that not only fish swim through the Rhine, but also a lot of garbage, has been clear for a long time. Researchers at the University of Bonn, among others, have now found out: In fact, the Rhine is much more littered than was originally assumed.
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