Carbon capture does more than paint the fossil fuel sector green

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Capturing process emissions will be critical to achieving net zero in the waste sector, writes Viridor's Tim Rotheray

The challenge of climate change, to achieve net zero by 2050, in just 27 years' time is monumental. Every natural gas boiler, every petrol and diesel car, every fossil fuelled power station has to eventually...

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