A new survey reveals that the domestic burning plastic waste is widespread in cities across the Global South, a practice ...

A new study is shedding light on households in developing countries burning plastic as an everyday energy source, causing ...

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

In many low-income areas around the world, a new behavior is alarming scientists and public health experts. With affordable fuel for cooking and warming homes becoming scant, many people are burning ...

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

Food wrappers, cited by nearly two-thirds of respondents, were the most frequently burned plastic product. The study ...

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 ...

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 ...

At most places Melissa Valliant goes when dining out, she carries in her backpack a set of reusable flatware — prepared to refuse the disposable utensils she says are part of the plastic pollution ...