Europe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant: can it be stopped?
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
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| 0:34.1 | the right decision for your home. search EDF Energy.com slash Energy Specialist to find out more. We now live on a planet filled with plastic. |
| 0:53.0 | Every minute, an entire garbage truck worth of plastic waste is dumped into the world's oceans. |
| 0:59.0 | Plastic showing up in the stomachs and intestines of wild animals and in places on earth that even humans don't |
| 1:04.7 | occupy. |
| 1:05.7 | Our love of it isn't slowing down either. |
| 1:08.1 | We are continuing to increase our use of plastics and that is set to continue to occur until at least 2028. |
| 1:15.0 | And while we usually associate plastic pollution with the products, |
| 1:20.0 | bottles, bags, wrappers, manufacturing these things from fossil fuels has a massive impact too. |
| 1:28.0 | Which is why environmental law charity, client Earth and 13 other organizations stepped into a Flemish |
| 1:36.4 | Court on Tuesday. |
| 1:39.6 | Their aim is to try and stop a huge new petrochemical plant being built in Antwer, Belgium, and in doing |
| 1:46.8 | so slow the scale of plastic production in Europe. |
| 1:58.0 | But what does actually making this stuff do to us and to the environment? Can the plant be stopped? |
| 2:01.0 | And what will it take to finally get to grips with plastic pollution? |
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