Go on then Jim, we’re all ears…

[DaveGrohl]

More than 350m metric tonnes of plastic waste is produced a year, and by 2060 plastic waste is set to increase to 1bn metric tonnes.
The UK government argues its financial guarantees are in line with its support for a global transition towards net zero.

UKEF said Ineos had promised to become carbon neutral for Scope 1 and 2 emissions 10 years after the start of operations
The production of plastic is, however, hugely carbon intensive. Over 99% of plastic comes from fossil fuels and plastic production is by far the largest industrial oil, gas and electricity user in the EU

UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant

Campaigners say Ineos project in Antwerp will turbocharge plastic production on a scale not seen before in Europe

www.theguardian.com

Clever that isn’t it? Get the money floodgates opened then 10 years later maybe buy some carbon offsets that will do absolutely fekk all and won‘t even touch the sides of this monstrous money-making machine. Fekk the planet by all means if you absolutely must but at least be honest about it. What an utter joke, and actually being greenlit by you and I through the UK govt

 

[delilah]

You'd think he would want to deal with all the crap on the pitch first.

 

[DaveGrohl]

You'd think he would want to deal with all the crap on the pitch first.

The pitch will be generating offsets. Fiendish.

 

[Adeptandy]

I personally think plastics are a bigger threat to the environment than anything else

 

[delilah]

Certainly micro-plastics. Time bomb for anyone who has taken sewage sludge.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Indeed, carbon will be forgotten about soon enough and then we can focus on the real problems at last. This is one of them above.

 

[bovrill]

How and why are we going to produce three times as much waste in 35 years time?
Or has someone taken some random statistics completely out of context to each other and mashed them together to come up with a totally fantastical figure?
When someone uses stuff like that to grab attention, it makes me completely disregard anything else they have to say.

 

[spin cycle]

You'd think he would want to deal with all the crap on the pitch first.

oooh....someone had a little win today

 

[delilah]

oooh....someone had a little win today

Sacked Ricky Martin in the week, with him and Neill gone that's all the Carrow Road dross cleared out, we were always going to win today .

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

oooh....someone had a little win today

So did the mighty

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Just think of all the jobs it could have provided if built in the UK, using fracked gas from the UK as it's feedstock...

 

[Vader]

More than 350m metric tonnes of plastic waste is produced a year, and by 2060 plastic waste is set to increase to 1bn metric tonnes.
The UK government argues its financial guarantees are in line with its support for a global transition towards net zero.

UKEF said Ineos had promised to become carbon neutral for Scope 1 and 2 emissions 10 years after the start of operations
The production of plastic is, however, hugely carbon intensive. Over 99% of plastic comes from fossil fuels and plastic production is by far the largest industrial oil, gas and electricity user in the EU

UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant

Campaigners say Ineos project in Antwerp will turbocharge plastic production on a scale not seen before in Europe

www.theguardian.com

Clever that isn’t it? Get the money floodgates opened then 10 years later maybe buy some carbon offsets that will do absolutely fekk all and won‘t even touch the sides of this monstrous money-making machine. Fekk the planet by all means if you absolutely must but at least be honest about it. What an utter joke, and actually being greenlit by you and I through the UK govt

May I use that quote on social...?

 

[melted welly]

Has he moved on from his Grangemouth project that was gonna turn 200 lorry loads of sugar beet per day into petrol then?

 

[PSQ]

Has he moved on from his Grangemouth project that was gonna turn 200 lorry loads of sugar beet per day into petrol then?

The Grangemouth refinery is heading for the scrap heap:

grangemouth-bosses-confirm-oil-refinery-closure-but-cannot-say-when-4444605

 

[DaveGrohl]

May I use that quote on social...?

Yes if you like.

 

[steveR]

The Grangemouth refinery is heading for the scrap heap:

grangemouth-bosses-confirm-oil-refinery-closure-but-cannot-say-when-4444605

SNP and Greens don't like Ineos...... and this is the result?

 

[deere 6600]

Surely you could burn plastic generate electricity and capture the ( harmful ]. Gasses am I just naive or stupid

 

[ollie989898]

Surely you could burn plastic generate electricity and capture the ( harmful ]. Gasses am I just naive or stupid

Already in common use in parts of Europe. Need a natural gas supply to help fire it and you collect the ash to use as road building aggregate. Metals are collected off with a magnet though only tiny amounts remain.