For the first time in Bangladesh, a market solely for the buying and selling of used polythene has been initiated in Moulvibazar. Moulvibazar Municipality Mayor Md Fazlur Rahman inaugurated the ...

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal gave the public quite the surprise when he proposed to withdraw the existing 5 percent supplementary duty on all types of polythene bags, plastic bags (including ...

As Bangladesh declares the date of the upcoming parliamentary elections, the country's politicians, policymakers, and ...

As a step towards curbing plastic pollution, State Minister for Climate Change Zartaj Gul has announced a blanket ban on the sale and purchase of polythene shopping bags in different cities of ...

Researchers have devised a processing technique that can create transparent polythene film that can be stronger as aluminum but at a fraction of the weight, and which could be used use in glazing, ...

Despite a nationwide ban, use of polythene bags continues to increase in all over Moulvibazar including in rural areas. During a visit to several markets and bazars in different upazilas of the ...

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 ...

Bhubaneswar, May 10: To lessen the city's polythene load, the state government has decided to process the waste in cement plants so that it can be burnt as fuel and turned into fly ash. It will also ...

The Bangladesh Government has begun enforcing a complete ban on the sale and use of polythene bags in the capital, Dhaka. Environment Minister Shahajahan Siraj says the decision has been taken to save ...

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