The practice is ‘much more widespread’ than previously realised, researchers say, with serious environmental impact ...

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

A new Curtin University-led study has shed new light on the widespread number of households in developing countries burning plastic as an everyday energy source, uncovering serious international ...

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

A new global study has revealed that the household burning of plastic for heating and cooking is a widespread practice in developing countries, raising significant concerns about its health and ...

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

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 ...

Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste — and why do single-use items ...