{"id":52215,"date":"2019-05-19T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T04:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=52215"},"modified":"2019-05-17T17:58:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T12:58:51","slug":"decision-to-ban-plastic-bags-in-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/decision-to-ban-plastic-bags-in-islamabad.html","title":{"rendered":"Decision to ban plastic bags in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Ministry on Climate Change has decided to ban the manufacturing and sale of plastic bags in Islamabad from August 14, 2019 \u2013 a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry will issue SROs (Statutory Rules and Orders) to implement the ban. The draft of the SRO has been sent to the Minister of Law for vetting. After vetting, the SRO will be approved by the cabinet after which its implementation will be ensured.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/campaign-launched-to-ban-plastic-bags-in-islamabad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Campaign launched to ban plastic bags in Islamabad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brieifing the National Assembly Standing Committee on Climate Change, the Climate Change Secretary said that it has been decided that Islamabad will be turned into a model city. For this purpose, it will be made plastic-free.<\/p>\n<p>The matter of low-quality high octane causing pollution was also raised during the meeting. The standing committee has summoned the Petroleum Secretary for its next meeting to brief and answer the committee on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Ministry on Climate Change has decided to ban the manufacturing and sale of plastic bags in Islamabad from August 14, 2019 \u2013 a news source reported. The ministry will issue SROs (Statutory Rules and Orders) to implement the ban. The draft of the SRO has been sent to the Minister of Law for vetting. After vetting, the SRO will be approved by the cabinet after which its implementation will be ensured. Read:\u00a0Campaign launched to ban plastic bags in Islamabad Brieifing the National Assembly Standing Committee on Climate Change, the Climate Change Secretary said that it has been decided that Islamabad will be turned into a model city. For this purpose, it will be made plastic-free. The matter of low-quality high octane causing pollution was also raised during the meeting. The standing committee has summoned the Petroleum Secretary for its next meeting to brief and answer the committee on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11688],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-decision-to-ban-plastic-bags-in-islamabad"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Decision to ban plastic bags in Islamabad - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Ministry on Climate Change has decided to ban the manufacturing and sale of plastic bags in Islamabad from August 14, 2019 \u2013 a news source\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/decision-to-ban-plastic-bags-in-islamabad.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Decision to ban plastic bags in Islamabad - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Ministry on Climate Change has decided to ban the manufacturing and sale of plastic bags in Islamabad from August 14, 2019 \u2013 a news source\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/decision-to-ban-plastic-bags-in-islamabad.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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