Domestic plastic burning is prevalent in cities around the world, fuelled by poor waste management, survey finds.

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Get a Free Sample PDF copy of the report @- The exponential increase in plastic production has led to a surge in plastic waste, posing significant environmental challenges. Rising awareness about the ...

According to Towards Chemical and Materials, the global chemical recycling of plastics market volume was valued at 1.37 ...

Up to 904 million pounds of the waste was illegally dumped in the U.S. The United States produced more plastic waste than any other country in the world in 2016 -- about 92.6 billion pounds, ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

The PRecycling project aims to recover high-quality polymeric materials enabling up to 100% recycled content incorporation in ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker transports plastic waste slated for a compressor in Bentong, Malaysia, in June 2024 before the waste is recycled and sold ...

Food wrappers, cited by nearly two-thirds of respondents, were the most frequently burned plastic product. The study ...