EU BANS PLASTICS-ASSOCIATED GAS REDUCTIONS FROM CARBON CREDIT SYSTEM

BY KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) climate change committee has banned the generation of tradeable EU carbon credits through investments in emerging market countries to reduce production of two chemicals associated with plastics and polymers. These are trifluoromethane (HFC-23) when produced as a by-product of making chlorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22), and nitrous oxide (N2O) from adipic acid production. HCFC-22 is a precursor to tetrafluoroethylene (TFE), whose gas helps polymer manufacture. Adipic acid is used as a monomer to help produce nylon and ...


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