Without a tax, nutrients worth 25% of the CAP budget are lost to water and air every year

Without a tax, nutrients worth 25% of the CAP budget are lost to water and air every year

It’s startling to think that fertilizer worth 25% of the CAP budget is lost to water and air, bringing with it a wide array of environmental problems, perhaps the most visible of which is eutrophication – which typically leads to a slimy green coating of algae which compromises far too many of our lakes and rivers. However, an EU-wide tax on artificial fertilizer would reduce these losses, first by boosting […]