People often drink water from plastic bottles, and vegetables are frequently brought home in plastic bags. These habits could prove dangerous to health. Let’s understand how plastic can cause ...

Open burning of plastic has been linked to heart ... million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more.

The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles ... makes it into ...

Burning plastic comes with 'substantial' threats ... equivalent to over 400 plastic bottles. For comparison, the United Kingdom currently has the per-capita equivalent of less than three plastic ...

Burning plastic comes with 'substantial' threats ... equivalent to over 400 plastic bottles. For comparison, the United Kingdom currently has the per-capita equivalent of less than three plastic ...

Burning plastic releases toxic substances ... and exports more than half a billion of its iconic square plastic bottles every year. Fiji Water, owned by the California-based Wonderful Co., ...

The Ministry of Environment has issued a warning about the health and environmental impacts of increasing plastic waste, ...

Just outside the kiln, Kongthy, 56, runs a roadside cafe. She says the smell of burning plastic frequently wafts in, and like her neighbours, she no longer collects rainwater due to dust ...

Burning plastic and waste for heating is becoming increasingly common in urban areas. Credit: Nature Cities (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00201-5 ...