Why We Need to Ban Scrubbers on Ships: Discharges from exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) or scrubbers, damage the environment and pose a health risk to wildlife and people.
Discharges from exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) or scrubbers, damage the environment and pose a health risk to wildlife and people. Scrubber wastewater is toxic to marine life even at low concentrations and increases seawater acidity.
Find out how scrubbers have turned an air pollution problem into a water pollution problem – in contradiction with international marine environment protection law – and how restricting or banning their use and requiring cleaner fuels to be used should be the way forward.
The use of scrubbers to limit air pollution is flawed: If ships continue using high-sulphur fuel in combination with scrubbers, ocean pollution will increase.
