Much more rubbish is floating in the Rhine than previously thought

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2026-01-09

Cologne, Germany (dpa) - The Rhine river is full of much more rubbish than previously thought, German researchers have warned. A study released on Thursday indicated that between 3,000 and 4,700 tonnes of rubbish measuring at least one centimetre in length float past the German city of Cologne every year. This is drastically more than in some earlier estimates, researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Tübingen wrote in the journal Communica......

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