From wax waste to essential oil sourcing, aromatherapy is fraught with sustainability questions.
. The following year, one report estimated that 10,000-20,000 seabirds were stranded in the North Sea after being contaminated by refined liquid paraffin. Paraffin spills have continued throughout Europe, although Suaria notes that two of the primary producers of paraffin have not reported wax stranding events, possibly due to a lack of incident reporting.
“I would say the majority, if not the entirety, of all of the reports I found were from Europe, and they were not from Asia or South America or North America,” Suaria says. “They are probably occurring, but they are not getting published or they don’t attract too much attention from the general public.”
Suaria hopes that further research occurs on the potential toxicity of paraffin wax to marine life. But currently, it is only known as another anthropogenic petroleum waste product in our oceans in the name of candles, alongside the“The public is still not really informed about these events. I don’t think that many people [have] heard about paraffin stranding events, or these kinds of issues,” Suaria says.
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