US EditionUp to 4,700 metric tons of litter flows down the Rhine each year
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A team of volunteers in Cologne collects garbage that defiles the Rhine. Researchers have now evaluated the finds. In Germany's most important river, therefore, much more waste floats than previously suspected.
With a garbage trap, researchers measure the amount of waste in Germany's largest river. Compared to previous estimates, they record a large increase.
A new study from Bonn and Tübingen shows how much waste is in the Rhine. Cologne's "Rheinkrake" provided data for this. Which wastes often occur in the river and what is particularly surprising.
Up to 4,700 metric tons of litter flows down the Rhine each year
The river Rhine is estimated to carry between 3,000 and 4,700 metric tons of macrolitter—pieces of litter larger than 25 millimeters in size—towards the North Sea every year, according to research published in Communications Sustainability.
How much garbage is driving in the Rhine towards the sea? Researchers wanted to know exactly - and used a garbage trap set up in Cologne. The results surprise.
Madrid.- One of the main water arteries of Europe, the River Rhine, transports every year up to 4,700 tons of large waste, of more than 25 millimetres, which ends in the North Sea. An amount 250 times the previous estimates. The calculation has been made through the data collected by a citizen science project, by which a surface-level trapdoor was installed in the river as it passed through the German city of Cologne and the waste captured durin…
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