A youth rally and procession with the theme Use of Alternative Products to Plastic and Polythene was held in Agargaon area on Sunday organised by the Department of Environment to make the youth aware against environmental pollution.
Under the special initiative of the environment, forest and climate change ministry 3,797 cases were filed and Tk26,382,690 was realised as fine in drives against air, noise and polythene pollution this year across the country.
A mobile court on Thursday sealed an illegal polythene factory at Kapasia in Gazipur, and sentenced the factory owner, Abdul Awal, to three months in jail...
Environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Saturday said jute bags would be provided to the public as an alternative to polythene shopping bags under a government initiative that includes subsidised distribution....
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Tuesday said that six people were arrested in connection with an attack on officials from the Department of Environment during a drive at an illegal polythene factory in Dhaka鈥檚 Chawk Bazar area on Sunday...
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...
A director of the Department of Environment was injured in an attack by workers during a drive at a Polythene factory at Islambagh in the capital鈥檚 Chawkbazar area Sunday afternoon.
A total of 199 mobile court operations have been conducted across the country since November 3, collecting Tk 25,72,300 in fines on 414 establishments and the seizure of 50,556 kg of polythene shopping bags.
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 remained steadfast in its efforts to enforce the ban on polythene shopping bags, said the polythene monitoring committee.
Bangladesh interim government is intensifying its efforts to enforce the ban on polythene shopping bags, urging all citizens to comply with the directives to stop using such bags.
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...
The Department of Environment-led joint drives against manufacturing illegal polythene bags were postponed halfway on Wednesday amid protests by polythene factory workers at Kamalbagh of Chawk Bazar in Old Dhaka...
Government agencies so far seized 12,696 kilogrammes of polythene and fined errant traders Tk 6 lakh since the government started drives against illegal polythene, harmful to the...
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...
The government on Friday announced mobile court drives against polythene bag manufacturers and marketers to stop the use of the harmful bags implementing the...
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government environment, forest and climate change ministry has formed a five-member committee to monitor the ban on polythene shopping bags.
Environment, forest, climate change, and water resources adviser to the interim government, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, on Sunday announced that the government would reward markets in the capital that...
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...
Environment, forest and climate change adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Monday said that super shops couldn鈥檛 use polythene shopping bags and polypropylene bags and...
Adviser for Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Wednesday urged united efforts to make Saint Martins Island, Kuakata and Sundarbans plastic and polythene-free...
