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Nearly 35 Million Tons of Red Mud Have Been Sleeping Off Cassis Since 1966, Which No One Has Ever Raised.

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In 1966, a dilumina plant near Marseilles obtained permission to dump its waste directly into the Mediterranean. Fifty-eight years later, the Cassidiigne Canyon still houses about 32 million tons of industrial red sludge, never removed, just a few kilometres from Cassis calanques. To be remembered Since 1966, an alumina plant of [...]
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In 1966, a dilumina plant near Marseilles obtained permission to dump its waste directly into the Mediterranean. Fifty-eight years later, the Cassidiigne Canyon still houses about 32 million tons of industrial red sludge, never removed, just a few kilometres from Cassis calanques. To be remembered Since 1966, an alumina plant of [...]

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SciencePost broke the news on Thursday, September 17, 2026.
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