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"I fully support Mr Newton Dunn’s report on the use of phosphates and other phosphorus compounds in household laundry detergents as, despite its highly technical content, I think that it concerns a subject that is part of everyone’s daily life. While these substances are needed in household detergents to ensure a basic standard of hygiene and health safety, if present in too high a quantity, they can be hazardous for the environment and, in particular, can cause the eutrophication of our waters. Eutrophication promotes the excessive growth of algae and other plants, which flourish disproportionately, starving other living organisms of oxygen and producing toxins that are dangerous for our waters. Every year, 16 000 tonnes of phosphates are spilled into the Baltic Sea alone, and the cost of removing the algae that periodically accumulates is fairly high. I think that we must find a solution by looking into substitutes for phosphates that are equally effective but not as harmful to the environment."@en1
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