Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...

Black bin waste will be collected once a fortnight instead of weekly in a pilot scheme aimed at reversing falling recycling ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2.