As climate change hits hard, cost of living soars and growing plastic waste threatens to overwhelm us, slick sales pitches increasingly market the idea of waste-to-fuels as a ‘solution’.
These take both liquid and solid forms as synthetic gas (‘syn-gas’) and process engineered fuels (PEF). Industry claims include being part of the ‘circular economy’, ‘bioenergy’, ‘sustainable’, ‘carbon neutral’ and even ‘zero carbon’.
There are a number of live proposals and projects already happening across Aotearoa. Join the Regeneration Not Incineration campaign to learn more.