Extraction
INEOS is one of the world’s largest petrochemicals companies, it does not disclose the overall emissions its business is responsible for, it has no ‘net zero’ emissions reduction target across its business and has announced no business-wide targets to switch to renewable energy..
INEOS’ greenhouse gases are emitted from extraction and transport of fossil fuels, from the use of fossil fuel as both raw material and power to produce plastics and other chemical products, and from the incineration and degradation of
Mining: to obtain the lithium that fuels mobiles and Teslas means drilling through fragile beds of salt, magnesium and potassium high in the Chilean Andes, producing piles and pools of discarded polluting materials/ molecules that move around, rising into the atmosphere, spreading out across once-fertile soils, seeping into waterways plastics waste