CRC could increase cost of recycling, warns waste industry

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Environmental Services Association says plans to simplify the Carbon Reduction Commitment could jeopardise UK waste targets

Plans to simplify the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) could inadvertently increase the cost of recycling and penalise some older energy-from-waste plants, businesses in the waste management sector have...

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