Despite the announcement of a polythene-free campaign in the markets starting from November 1, production is still ongoing in factories. Producers claim that even though the government has banned ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Authorities conduct a monitoring drive on Friday morning in Dhaka in an effort to curb the use of banned polythene shopping bags. The government on Friday announced mobile court drives against ...

The Department of Environment on Tuesday conducted 15 mobile courts across the country to curb the production, sale, supply, and marketing of prohibited polythene. The mobile courts fined 47 ...

Instead, the focus will be on operations against polythene manufacturers and suppliers. Full enforcement of the ban is set to begin on 1 December. Despite the government's bold initiative, ...