The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles ... makes it into the top five, openly burning more than 1.4 million metric tons ...

Some of you may be thinking that plastic is convenient to use, but is it convenient to kill the planet? As time passes, more and more plastic is being thrown into landfills, burned and thrown into ...

If you’ve ever been around burning ... 2 million tons of plastic contained in just the carpet discarded in the U.S. each year is the same amount of plastic as every water bottle, straw and ...

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning ... kg plastic pollution per person per year, equivalent to over 400 plastic bottles.

The subject chewed each piece of gum for 4 minutes, producing samples of saliva every 30 seconds, then did a final mouth rinse ... with exposure from plastic water bottles or plastic food storage ...

A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning ... average 12 kg plastic pollution per person per year, equivalent to over 400 plastic bottles.