Super shops can’t use polythene bags from 1 October: Rizwana

Enormous outlets can’t command polythene and polypropylene baggage from 1 October, Atmosphere, Wooded space and Native weather Commerce Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan talked about at present (9 September).

The shops will furthermore be prohibited to have such baggage to customers as successfully, the adviser launched on the assembly with the stakeholders on the Bangladesh Secretariat.

Alternative jute and cloth baggage will likely be positioned at or in entrance of all tidy outlets for customers whereas the youths and students will likely be fervent in this initiative, she talked about.

She talked about the advertisement for banning browsing baggage will likely be broadly circulated in print and electronic media initiating 15 September.

Public watch will likely be published in newspapers as successfully, she added.

Rizwana talked about the Ministry of Textiles and Jute will support meetings with the final tidy outlets inner per week and rob wanted measures to make sure the offer of browsing baggage made from jute.

The Division of Atmosphere (DoE) in association with ESDO will organise an even for manufacturers of substitute eco-pleasant materials/jute/textile baggage by 30 September, she talked about.

At the glorious, the adviser talked about tidy shop authorities and producers can discuss their demand and provide.

The atmosphere, forest and native weather alternate secretary, extra secretaries of the ministry, DoE director general, senior officials of assorted ministries and representatives of diverse tidy outlets had been most recent on the assembly.