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

Horizons Regional Council is encouraging communities to do their part to reduce impacts on air quality this summer. Humans ...

Vinyl chloride is a man-made, colorless gas that burns easily and is used to make polyvinyl chloride, a hard plastic.

Miami-Dade County commissioners must pick a side: burning garbage or preserving the environment. This week, the county should make the right decision about how it handles our garbage. It’s our garbage ...

The city of Spokane will use $650,000 in state grant funds to study capturing the carbon released by the Waste-to-Energy ...

A new Curtin University-led paper published in Nature Cities has called for action to reduce the burning of plastics for heating and cooking, a common yet hazardous practice emerging in millions of ...

Rapid population growth and industrialization in major cities lead to waste management challenges and environmental hazards.

A recent report presented at the Portage la Prairie City Council shed light on solid waste management in the community.

Dhaka’s air is getting worse, and waste burning is making it unbearable. While traffic and construction play their roles, the hidden culprit — burning garbage — is silently poisoning the city ...

A man who illegally burned waste near an Aberdeenshire village has been ordered to carry out unpaid work. Derek McAllister, 61, admitted breaching the Environmental Protection Act involving the ...

A ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said a Guam-based nonprofit group had legal standing to pursue its claim ...

The European Court of Human Rights took Italy to task for not protecting citizens in an area where illegal dumping and burning of toxic waste has long been linked to cancers. Residents say it’s ...