Domestic plastic burning is prevalent in cities around the world, fuelled by poor waste management, survey finds.

A case study on the effects of open waste burning on air quality in Northwestern Greenland calls attention to the importance of no-one-left-behind sustainable air quality monitoring in the Arctic ...

Researchers document widespread plastic burning in homes worldwide, driven by energy poverty, poor waste services, and limited fuel options.

Plastic waste turns up in many places, sometimes piled at the edge of a road, sometimes tucked behind homes. In a growing number of cities across the Global South, it also turns up in cooking fires. A ...

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

The Qalqilya dump stile burning. The Knesset State Control Committee convened last week to address the health hazards caused by transboundary air pollution stemming from illegal waste burning in the ...