Interesting that an environmental campaigner is making a legal challenge to the UK's decision to exclude emissions from incinerators from its newly-minted carbon trading scheme (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/25/legal-challenge-uk-exclusion-waste-incinerators-emissions-trading-scheme). This is on the grounds that it ignores undertakings (in the Paris agreement) to become carbon neutral by 2050. The UK currently has 48 waste incinerators (usually sited in deprived areas of the country), where rubbish is burned to generate electricity. It has been calculated that, in 2019, they generated a total of 6.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions (along with other stuff). These emissions are on a par with the total output of several major cities. Personally, I can't understand why they don't have carbon capture technology fitted as standard. I also would have thought that it doesn't really matter how the carbon dioxide is generated- every source should count.
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