Few items are as ubiquitous in modern life as the humble polythene bag. Lightweight, cheap, and readily available, polythene bags are handed out daily across Bangladesh, used to carry everything ...
The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change along with the Department of Environment conducted a monitoring drive on Friday morning in an effort to curb the use of banned polythene ...
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has formed a five-strong committee to stop the use of banned polythene shopping bags. The panel was formed to implement the campaign taken ...
In Dhaka's Madhubazar, a woman shopping for essentials handed a cloth bag to a grocery shopkeeper along with her list, asking him not to put the stuff in a polythene shopping bag. Shopkeeper Halim ...
A total of Tk180,500 in fines was imposed on 26 businesses while 746kg of polythene and a truck were seized today (3 November) during the Department of Environment's (DoE) raids across Bangladesh.
Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Climate Change, has announced strict monitoring to end the use of polythene shopping bags from November 1. She not only ...