Bilge dumping: The worst pollution you’ve never heard of

Vessels continue to pollute the world’s oceans with oily wastewater. A DW investigation shows how seafarers circumvent environmental laws to save time and money, with devastating effects. Investigation by: Naomi Conrad, Max Bernhard, Julia Bayer, Nina Werkhäuser Video by: Christian Caurla 3D animations by: Martyna Marciniak Supervising editors: Joanna Gottschalk, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer Joint collaboration with Lighthouse reports and IRPI, Expresso, El Diario, BIRN, Libertatae, Trow, The Guardian & Jutarnji List We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.