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

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Every minute, an entire garbage truck worth of plastic waste is dumped into the world. We are continuing to increase our use of plastics until at least 2028. Client Earth and 13 other organisations stepped into a Flemish court on Tuesday. Their aim is to try and stop a huge new petrochemical plant being built in Antwerp,. In doing so, slow the scale of plastic production in Europe.

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