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Countries face emissions ‘cocktail’ from waste burning Youths engaging in open burning of waste at a dump. A report says this potentially releases long-term environmental pollutants and toxic substances linked to immunological and developmental impairments. Copyright: Fairphone, (CC BY-NC 2.0). This image has been cropped. Speed read Lack of data means full extent of problem is not known Safer waste management solutions must be identified urgently Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s free under our creative commons attribu...

Nearly a billion tons of waste are disposed of improperly every year and this is threatening the health and wellbeing of billions worldwide, a new study reports. The study looked at what happens to consumer goods and other products at the end of their useful life and concludes that urgent action is needed to address open burning of solid waste and ill-managed dumpsites. Image credit: Flickr / Fairphone The “Global Review on Safer End of Engineered Life” report showed that of all the municipal solid waste generated on Earth, a quarter — half a billion tons — is not collected, and a fur...

Study calls for urgent action to address the risks posed by unsafe disposal practices A major global study of what happens to consumer goods and other engineered products at the end of their useful life has found widespread use of unsafe management and disposal practices and calls for urgent action to address the risks posed to human life and health. The Engineering X Global Review on Safer End of Engineered Life warns that the biggest threat is from the open burning of solid waste which is damaging the health of "tens of millions" of people worldwide but a lack of data means that the true sc...