This toolkit compiles key facts, data and strategies to help communities and organizers understand the impacts of waste burning, challenge proposed or existing facilities, and engage in waste policy a...

Communities worldwide are mobilizing to stop waste incineration this October 13–16. Explore the global map, join free events, and take action with GAIA.

Considered one of the greatest environmental risks to health, air pollution is laden with fine particulate matter that causes cardiovascular and respiratory disease, cancers, and substantial mortality...

The UK’s biggest people-powered investigation into household plastic waste.

The UK’s biggest people-powered investigation into household plastic waste.

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Campaigners have hit out at the Scottish Government’s blueprint to cut waste.

We want the government U.K. wide to create an independent ‘clean air monitoring system’ linked to the Environment Agency who can enforce any and all breaches where they occur, for communities near inc...

Council passes motion also requiring carbon liability guarantees before committing to 40-year contract for residual treatment

Everyday Plastic joins 155 groups for Europe’s Day of Action Against Incineration, calling for a ban on new plants and real waste solutions.

A residents’ group in Whittlesey is urging regulators to strengthen oversight of local waste operations, warning that public confidence has eroded and long-term health and environmental risks remain u...

The facility has been burning household waste since 1993, and much of that waste is plastics. But concerns about the chemicals in plastics, and the dangers of air pollution, have grown. Wales offers...

Plastic pollution is out of control and environmental groups have been pushing to secure a global agreement to tackle it. Fossil fuel lobbyists again blocked a full treaty that would cut plastic prod...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 15 August 2025 Geneva, Switzerland-- The chair’s text, released in the middle of the night, is barely an improvement over the previous chair’s text that was decisively rejected ...

Introduce a moratorium on new waste incinerators like in Scotland and Wales, and ban new permits and require existing permits to be revoked where substantial construction has not begun.

The government is planning on building a new generation of incinerators to generate electricity - including one on England’s renowned Jurassic coast.

In Grangetown, where healthy life expectancy is 51.5, a 30-year waste deal risks locking in pollution and blocking progress. Will Teesside councils act?

Introduce a moratorium on new waste incinerators like in Scotland and Wales, and ban new permits and require existing permits to be revoked where substantial construction has not begun.

Encyclical Letter Laudato si' of the Holy Father Francis on care for our common home (24 May 2015)

Introduce a moratorium on new waste incinerators like in Scotland and Wales, and ban new permits and require existing permits to be revoked where substantial construction has not begun.

Introduce a moratorium on new waste incinerators like in Scotland and Wales, and ban new permits and require existing permits to be revoked where substantial construction has not begun.