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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Emma Bryce

Shipping is one of the world’s dirtiest industries – could this invention finally clean up cargo fleets?

An aerial shot of a ship, its deck a patchwork of brightly coloured containers, cutting though deep green-blue water.
Seabound's carbon capture prototype sailed for two months on this medium-sized container ship. Photograph: Seabound

An industrial park alongside the River Lea in the London suburb of Chingford might not be the most obvious place for a quiet revolution to be taking place. But there, a team of entrepreneurs is tinkering with a modest looking steel container that could hold a solution to one of the world’s dirtiest industries.

Inside it are thousands of cherry-sized pellets made from quicklime. At one end, a diesel generator pipes fumes through the lime, which soaks up the carbon, triggering a chemical reaction that transforms it into limestone.

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