"The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in Nature Cities, has called for action to reduce the burning of plastics for heating and cooking ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.

Keep checking your clothes for moth holes, keep rooms well-ventilated as temperatures start to rise, and keep a natural oil ...

The Post's Cindy Adams has a few complaints about plastic surgery trends for men ... They make passes at you with your own wardrobe. What next? False eyelashes? They can have mine.

Researchers at Newcastle University have developed a novel mortar that incorporates recycled plastic and silica aerogel, reducing heat loss by up to 55% compared to standard mixes. This eco ...

Wouldn’t be wonderful to reduce heating bills of all our new builds and at the same time significantly reduce plastic waste in the world?” Seven different formulations were tested alongside ...

Financial crisis and cuts to the welfare system have driven people to UK food banks. About 500,000 are estimated to have ...

A new Curtin University-led paper published in Nature Cities has called for action to reduce the burning of plastics for heating and cooking ... waste management meant plastic waste was in ...

A HEATING expert has shared a simple trick that will get your house hot quickly and save you hundreds a year. The cold ...