THE violent attack on a Department of Environment director during a drive against illegal polythene production at Chawkbazar in Dhaka is worrying as it indicates a weak enforcement mechanism. The director was assaulted on January 26 and had a fractured nose after he had sealed off a factory illegally producing polythene bags. A similar violent attack took...
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...
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...
AFTER years of slack enforcement of the Polythene Bag Control Act 2002, the interim government has taken a move to phase out plastic products that are used once and discarded and begun drives against polythene bags. The environment and forest ministry issued a directive in August that listed 17 single-use plastic products, including bottles, bags, fast food...
Superstores started operating without poly bags after the interim government had enforced a nationwide ban on polythene and polypropylene shopping bags in all superstores with effect from Tuesday...
Environment, forest and climate change adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan said on Wednesday that the government decided to strictly implement a ban on production, storage, transportation, marketing and use of polythene and polypropylene shopping bags...