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Plastic waste clean-up campaign held at DU, BUET, DMC

The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, with financial support from the Royal Norwegian embassy in Dhaka, is providing technical support to the Department of Environment for the implementation of the project titled...

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Esquire Partners Meet held

Esquire Plastics Ltd, Esquire Door, and Esquire Pipe and Fittings successfully hosted Esquire Partners Meet 2025 at Gulshan Club under the slogan ‘Together Towards Excellence’...

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Four-day int’l plastic fair begins

Commerce adviser Sk Bashir Uddin on Wednesday said that the plastic products could play an important role in tapping the potentials for diversifying further the country’s exportable items...

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Govt encourages safe alternative to plastic: Rizwana

Environment, forest and climate change adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan at a seminar on Wednesday said that the government was working to discourage use of single-use plastic to curb pollution and encouraging safer alternative to save environment...

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IPF 2025 to begin Feb 12

The Bangladesh International Plastics, Printing and Packaging Industry Exhibition, also called IPF 2025, is going to be held from February 12 to 15 at ICCB Dhaka, said a press release...

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Kazi Nazrul Islam’s grandson Babul Kazi dies

National poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s grandson Babul Kazi, a readymade garment trader, died on Sunday afternoon while undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery with severe burn injuries...

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BPGMEA places 5 proposals

The Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association has placed five proposals to address the energy crisis...

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Durable Plastic holds dealer confce in Egypt

The international dealer conference of Durable Plastic Limited, a concern of the country’s leading business conglomerate RFL, was held in Egypt recently...

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Defeat plastic before it wipes us out

THE presence of plastics, from the Himalayas’ peak to Challenger Deep — the deepest known point of the seabed of Earth — highlights plastic pollution as one of the most severe environmental crises of our time. While challenges like greenhouse gas emissions remain uncontrollable, the escalating threat of plastic pollution demands immediate attention...

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Nations warn of deadlock at plastic pollution talks

Diplomats warned Saturday that a majority of countries could walk away from talks on the world’s first plastic pollution agreement if a handful of delegations continue resisting calls to compromise.

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Ban on polythene bags alone will hardly work

IT IS commendable that the government has announced its firm position against the widespread use of one-time plastic products and continued its drive against polythene bags, but the state of plastic pollution suggests that enforcing a polythene ban is not enough. The environment ministry issued a directive in August that listed 17 single-use plastic products as hazardous and asked retailers and others concerned...

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Showdown looms on plastic treaty days before deadline

Diplomats warned on Friday of a looming showdown in negotiations to reach the world’s first deal to curb plastic pollution, after a new draft text emerged littered with competing visions and on-going disagreements.

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Plastic pollution talks must speed up, chair warns

Negotiators must move ‘significantly’ faster to reach a landmark treaty to curb plastic pollution, the diplomat chairing the talks warned Wednesday, as countries lined up to express frustration about the limited progress...

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Little done, but a lot to shore up

THE government has renewed the ban on the use of polythene and polypropylene shopping bags in super stores beginning on October 1. After two decades, the law was revisited for a nationwide enforcement beginning on November 1. It was not the use but its indiscriminate disposal that prompted the ban on the production, sales and use of polythene...

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Plastic floater of dredger catches fire

A fire broke out in the ‘foam type plastic floater’ of a dredger kept on the bank of the Jamuna River in front of the Dredger Beige office in the Aricha port area at ​​Shibalay upazila in Manikganj...

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Plastic sector businesses call for consultation with stakeholders

The Plastic Foundation, a platform representing 14 plastic manufacturers’ associations, on Monday urged the government to consult with stakeholders to assess the economic impact before implementing its plan to phase out single-use plastic products...

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Adviser orders ban of single-use plastic water bottles

Adviser for Ministries of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Road Transport and Bridges and Railways Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan issued two directives regarding the banning of single-use plastic water bottles and the formulation of recruitment and promotion policies for different entities under his ministries.

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Revisiting the ban on single-use plastic

SINCE the interim government has undertaken its responsibility, it has made considerable efforts to reduce plastic use. Single-use plastic bottles have been banned at the chief adviser’s...

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UBL campaigns on plastic waste management

The Unilever Bangladesh Limited, the country’s leading fast moving consumer goods company, in collaboration with Young Power in Social Action and Sunsilk, has taken a proactive stance in addressing the environmental crisis with the launch of the AwareWave campaign under its employee volunteering platform, Proyash...

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Plastics: an ocean justice crisis

AS THE fourth negotiating session on the United Nations plastics treaty comes to a close, pressing questions loom: Will world leaders finalise a robust agreement by the end of this year that effectively halts plastic pollution at its source? Despite the fortitude of countries within...

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