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, ...

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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 ...

According to a United Nations’s report, more than one million polythene bags are consumed in the world every minute. That’s an attractive number for a businessman, looking for an opportunity to cash ...

The use of polythene bags continues to run rampant in Bangladesh despite being banned by the government through an amendment to the Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act, 1995 in 2002. Section 6(A) ...

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 ...

DHAKA, Sept 29, 2025 (BSS) - The Department of Environment (DoE) today conducted two mobile court drives in Rajbari and ...

The recent decision of the City District Government Karachi to ban the use of polythene shopping bags in the city after June 2004 to tackle the ever increasing waste disposal problems is likely to ...