Shipwrecking industry hurts Mother Earth and its workers
25 Sep 2024The Shipwrecking industry, also widely known as ship demolition, ship dismantling, or shipbreaking, involves the breaking up of End-of-Life Ships (EoL) to extract recyclable parts or scrap. Upkeep, fuel inefficiency, metal fatigue, excessive carbon emission, and a lack of parts’ availability are key factors driving the decision to dispose of ships. Despite the high and widely known risk of irreparable environmental damage to pristine and fragile coastal ecosystems from shipbreaking, the industry has attracted little attention from academics, media and policymakers.
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