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

In one of the poorest slums in Argentina, hundreds of families rely on a huge landfill site to feed their children. Argentina used to be among the most prosperous countries in Latin America.

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning ... mainly in Africa, Asia and Latin America, are putting it to use – especially as wood is increasingly scarce.