Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’

<p>Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated</p><p>The deaths from pollution caused by Europe’s biggest plastic plant, which is being built in Antwerp, will outstrip the number of permanent jobs it will create, lawyers will argue in a court challenge issued on Thursday.</p><p>In documents submitted to the court, research suggests the air pollution from Ineos’s €4bn petrochemical plant would cause 410 deaths once operational, compared with the 300 permanent jobs the company says will be created.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/06/pollution-ineos-antwerp-plastic-plant-deaths-jobs-created">Continue reading...</a>