The Environmental Impact of the Petchcomil Plant

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There are 13 organisations led by client earth taking this action. The case will either end in the domestic court making a decision or it could go to European Court of Justice. Sandra says there are huge lobbying infrastructures behind fossil field companies, behind the plastics industry. "They put in enormous efforts and enormous money to go and lobby governments"

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 independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod