Europe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant: can it be stopped?

The environmental law charity ClientEarth and 13 other groups
headed into a Flemish court this week in an effort to stop Ineos
building a petrochemical plant that would be the biggest project of
its kind in Europe for 30 years. Madeleine Finlay hears from
correspondent Sandra Laville about how plastics are made, the
environmental and health impacts of the process and what needs to
be done to get a handle on plastic pollution. Help support our
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