Polythene seized in a drive by the Department of Environment, Bangladesh
The Department of Environment, Bangladesh, has seized ‘1,700 kg’ of polythene in a drive at polythene factories across the country. Of this, about 1,000 kg was seized in a truck from Kamrangirchar in Dhaka and 746 kg from other parts of the country.
On December 4, the Department of Environment in Bangladesh announced that polythene factories were fined Tk 180,500 during an enforcement drive.
The release indicated that 26 factories were fined and polythene was seized during 13 mobile court operations for stockpiling and selling polythene all around the country. A factory in the Kamrangirchar area of Dhaka had its gas, electricity, and water connections disconnected during a drive.
Syeda Rizwana Hasan, a leading environmentalist and advisor in Bangladesh’s Interim Government, in charge of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MOEFCC), Bangladesh and the Ministry of Water Resources (MOWR), Bangladesh, said at a meeting with environmental organizations at the Bangladesh Secretariat that a drive will also be launched soon against factories that break illegal batteries and melt lead.
Polythene bags were banned by law in 2002. However, after two decades, all parts of the country are covered in polythene bags.
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MOEFCC), Bangladesh, is conducting a campaign against the production, storage, transportation, marketing and use of banned polythene and polypropylene shopping bags.
