To curb polythene use, a nationwide operation against manufacturers will begin on Sunday by mobile courts, said Tapan Kumar Biswas, additional secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and ...

Although Bangladesh became the first country in the world to announce a complete ban on the use of polythene bags in 2002, strict enforcement of the much-lauded initiative has only started taking ...

Mobile courts of the Environment Ministry in their anti-polythene drive fined 142 shops and installations Tk613,700 for producing and marketing polythene shopping bags and seized 12,696 kgs of ...

The government is planning to launch mobile court drives across Bangladesh on Sunday in a bid to crack down on polythene manufacturers. Tapan Kumar Biswas, additional secretary of the Ministry of ...

The team then called the tractors and sent the seized polythene bags to the Kathonda plant, where it would be disposed completely. Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh): The Pollution Control Board Team, along ...

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 ...