"Tourists visit the white beaches in front of the Solvay SA s..."

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25 July 2025

Tourists visit the white beaches in front of the Solvay SA soda ash plant in Rosignano Solvay, Italy, on July 21, 2025. The Solvay chemical plant has a deep and lasting impact on Rosignano, a coastal town in Tuscany where industry and environment coexist in a complex balance. The town's striking white beaches owe their color to calcium carbonate and other industrial byproducts discharged by the plant into the sea. The plant also influences the town's social fabric, building schools, housing, and public infrastructure that still define much of Rosignano today.

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