{"id":130298,"date":"2024-05-10T07:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T04:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/what-is-scrubber-water-ships-pollute-baltic-sea-to-the-tune-of-e680-million-in-8-years-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T07:52:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T04:52:03","slug":"what-is-scrubber-water-ships-pollute-baltic-sea-to-the-tune-of-e680-million-in-8-years-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/what-is-scrubber-water-ships-pollute-baltic-sea-to-the-tune-of-e680-million-in-8-years-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"What is scrubber water? Ships pollute Baltic Sea to the tune of \u20ac680 million in 8 years, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130298\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nShipping companies have recouped the cost of \u2018scrubber\u2019 tech and are now benefiting from dirtier fuel, researchers have revealed. Ship pollution doesn\u2019t tend to hold much attention unless something has gone seriously wrong. When the Marco Polo ferry ran aground off the coast of Sweden in October, the world watched its slow and leaky journey back to port, shedding tonnes of oil that reached more than 500 birds in Blekinge county. But incidents like these are the tip of the iceberg for the Baltic Sea, Europe\u2019s almost entirely closed arm of the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by nine countries.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more insidious sources of pollution into this unique body of water comes from a part of ships that is meant to reduce their impact on the environment: scrubbers.These cleaning systems pump up and spray seawater over the exhaust gases that ships generate when burning heavy fuel oil, turning them to liquid before they can reach the air. More than 200 million cubic metres of this toxic \u2018scrubber water\u2019 is released back into the Baltic Sea a year, researchers calculated. Now, the experts at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have put a price tag on the pollution. It cost more than \u20ac680 million in marine damage between 2014 and 2022, they say.<\/p>\n<p>Yet shipping companies that invested in scrubber tech have mostly recouped the cost, and are now benefiting from continuing to use cheap, heavy fuel oil instead of cleaner fuel. \u201cWe see a clear conflict of interest, where private economic interests come at the expense of the marine environment in one of the world&#8217;s most sensitive seas,&#8221; says Anna Lunde Hermansson, co-author of the new study published in Nature Sustainability journal.<\/p>\n<p>Scrubbers help to reduce air pollution, thereby complying with rules introduced by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 2020. But the sulphur they prevent from going into the atmosphere is absorbed by the water instead, leading to severe acidification, and pollutants such as heavy metals and toxic organic compounds.<\/p>\n<p>To give a sense of the scale of the problem, there are more than 700 ships with scrubbers in the Baltic Sea according to Chalmers\u2019 estimates, and around 5,000 of them globally. That\u2019s about five per cent of the total global fleet and &#8211; since it tends to be ships with high fuel consumption that invest in scrubbers &#8211; this five per cent accounts for 25 per cent of the global demand for heavy fuel oil.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/05\/09\/what-is-scrubber-water-ships-pollute-baltic-sea-to-the-tune-of-680-million-in-8-years-stud\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/05\/09\/what-is-scrubber-water-ships-pollute-baltic-sea-to-the-tune-of-680-million-in-8-years-stud\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/what-is-scrubber-water-ships-pollute-baltic-sea-to-the-tune-of-e680-million-in-8-years-study-finds\/\">What is scrubber water? 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