While Hundreds of Countries Are Committed to Installing Sewage Treatment Plants, Australia Has Just Placed 20 Tons of Mussels Creating a Wall that Naturally Restores the Ecosystem

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A rock wall in Henderson, south of Perth, has just received 20 tons of blue mussels. They are not destined for the plate. They are part of a pilot project that wants to turn a port infrastructure into a live filter for Cockburn Sound, a cove that has been under strong environmental pressure for decades. Promoters estimate that the approximately 770,000 mussels could filter more than two million litres of marine water per hour. The figure impress…