Whales and wastewater

An article in the Sydney Morning Herald this week (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/whale-watch/heavy-metals-from-pollution-threaten-sperm-whales-with-extinction-20100625-z9m8.html) detailed one of the effects that decades of poor waste disposal practice has had on nature. For years on years in Australia and elsewhere overseas, wastewater containing heavy metals has been collected at its source and carted away for ‘off-site treatment’. Often it’s just been [...]

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