UNC-Chapel Hill has withdrawn its application to burn pellets made of paper and plastic scraps instead of coal in its power ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...

He is originally from Nepal and told Mongabay by phone that low-income people in Nepal commonly burn plastic in winter to keep warm and for cooking fuel. Plastic waste as fuel has become so common ...

Australian researchers have called for action to reduce the burning of plastic for heating and cooking in developing nations, warning of health risks. In a new study, researchers from Curtin ...

During the spring burning season, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality is reminding North Carolinians: If it doesn’t grow, don’t burn it. Open burning is ...

By Bobby Bascomb Plastic is increasingly being used for fuel by much of the world’s urban poor, to the detriment of the health of local people and their environment, researchers argue in a new ...

A graph I saw in high school appeared to show the Earth breathing. It was a graph that plotted carbon dioxide in the ...

Our kitchens are teeming with plastic, and most of us use it to cook every day. But should we all be thinking more about the ...

Buffeted by PFAS-emitting industries, Fayetteville could soon be home to a financially troubled company that wants to turn tons of plastic waste into diesel fuel using a polluting, energy-intensive ...

Tammy Grubb [email protected] UNC-Chapel Hill has withdrawn its application to burn pellets made of paper and plastic scraps instead of coal in its power plant on Cameron Avenue. The N.C ...