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Europe's biggest carbon-capture plant opened in the Netherlands

At a fertilizer plant in Zeeland, Yara switched on Europe's largest carbon capture facility — trapping 800,000 tons of CO2 a year and shipping it to storage beneath the Norwegian seabed. Heavy industry's hardest emissions, finally with somewhere to go.

The upbeat factorThe smokestack, meet the sponge.
✓ Verified · Reuters · 2026-09-07 · Netherlands
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