Researchers found that many households in the Global South burn plastic waste for heat, a practice linked to toxic emissions ...

A Curtin University-led paper, "The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in ...

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 global consumer goods industry’s plans for dealing with the vast plastic waste it generates can be seen here in a landfill on the outskirts of Indonesia’s capital, where a swarm of excavators ...

Judith Enck is president of Beyond Plastics, based at Bennington College in Vermont, and a former EPA regional administrator in the Obama administration. Tok M. Oyewole Ph.D., is U.S. and Canada ...

Now that nearly all the leaves have dropped from the trees, it’s common to see people burning leaves in backyard burn barrels. However, some local residents are disposing of plastic waste and ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable. So it’s ...

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds ...

When Tiwonge Mzumara-Gawa was a child, her mother sent her to market with a basket woven from grasses. “But now we don’t do that,” she says, because plastic has taken over most utilitarian purposes in ...

Plastic waste is an exploding global problem, with minimal recycling resulting in incineration as a common disposal practice. Shipments of plastic products and plastic waste from the Global North to ...