CounterPunch

Burning Plastic Waste is Not an Energy Solution

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 ...
Business Insider

I wrapped my shoes and socks in plastic bags and tape at Burning Man to avoid getting infections from the alkaline dust after heavy rain

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with British entrepreneur Dan Murray-Serter, 37, ...
Environment News Service

Burning Plastic for Heating, Cooking, Poisons Poor Families

PERTH, Western Australia, January 8, 2026 (ENS) – A new Curtin University-led study has shed fresh light on the number of households in developing countries that are burning plastic as an everyday ...
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Open burning of plastic is an escalating public health threat, say experts

Plastic waste spiraling out of control Open burning of plastic waste is a vastly underestimated problem, says Gauri Pathak, who co-authored a 2024 paper defining open burning as an urgent global ...
Los Angeles Times

Plastic bag bans seem to work, at least when it comes to shoreline pollution

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...