Future seabed disturbance could re-mobilise buried waste
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Dump sites overlap with emerging deep-sea uses — mining, bottom trawling, cable-laying. Disturbing degraded drums that are currently semi-contained could re-suspend and disperse their contents far more widely than passive decay would, turning a localised legacy into an active rel
#00124Authoritative dump-site registries embedded in marine spatial planning
Turn survey-derived dump-site boundaries and drum positions into an authoritative georeferenced layer that is mandatory input to seabed licensing, nautical charts, and marine spatial plans — so mining, trawling, and cable projects are routed around the zones by default.