Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...

POOR people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil ...

Stronger than concrete, Circular11's recycled plastic bricks were revolutionary. Though the bricks are no longer in ...

Nigerian households use garbage as cooking fuel, while Indonesian soil and food samples have dangerous toxin levels linked to ...

while a lack of waste management meant plastic waste was in abundance. Lead researcher Dr. Bishal Bharadwaj, from the Curtin ...

In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are ...

Toxic smoke billows from a bur­n­ing mound of plastic bags and leaves on Le Thi Huyen's farm in Hanoi, a city battling an ...

Research led by the Curtin University in Perth, Australia has found that an increase in plastic waste across developing ...