Waste-to-energy: How Europe can avoid sleepwalking into a landfill catastrophe and achieve net zero

Waste-to-energy: How Europe can avoid sleepwalking into a landfill catastrophe and achieve net zero Vanessa Fakra at Kanadevia Inova AG discusses waste-to-energy, including how Europe can avoid sleepwalking into a landfill catastrophe while achieving net zero. The European Union (EU) has ambitious landfill reduction targets of 10% or less by 2035. On the other hand, the European Commission is currently assessing the inclusion of the Waste to Energy and or the whole waste sector in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). This move could be counterproductive, as it penalizes technologies such as Waste to Energy (WtE) that are crucial for achieving net-zero goals.