Nearly Half the World’s Trash Is Burned, and That’s Worsening Climate Change
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New study reveales that roughly 41 percent of the world’s trash is burned, mostly in open air contributing to climate change and affecting human health. Emissions from pollutants and their harms are underestimated as unregulated burning are rarely reported.