As plastic waste piles up worldwide, researchers are uncovering troubling ways it's being reused, with consequences that ...

People in low-income urban communities in the Global South without access to reliable energy sources are burning the toxic ...

A new Curtin University-led study has shed new light on the widespread number of households in developing countries burning ...

Plastic waste spiraling out of control Open burning of plastic waste is a vastly underestimated problem, says Gauri Pathak, who co-authored a 2024 paper defining open burning as an urgent global ...

The world has a plastics problem. Never mind the horrifying pictures of a seahorse riding a cotton swab or a beached whale found with hundreds of plastic bags in its stomach. Plastic pollution has now ...

Plastic is increasingly being used for fuel by much of the world’s urban poor, to the detriment of the health of local people and their environment, researchers argue in a new commentary. As of 2021, ...

This isn’t just about lighting fires. Among those aware of the practice, nearly half had witnessed others burning plastic as ...

For steel-making communities, plastic-burning pollution is headed your way. The Department of Energy has proposed a $182 million taxpayer loan for a company that will build a plastic trash plant in ...

The ongoing fires ravaging Los Angeles, U.S., have killed at least 25 people and burned more than 12,000 buildings. Many of the structures destroyed were homes, mansions of the rich and famous and ...