{"id":54798,"date":"2019-08-30T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T11:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=54798"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:36:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T11:36:48","slug":"ban-on-plastic-bags-use-expected-in-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ban-on-plastic-bags-use-expected-in-lahore.html","title":{"rendered":"Ban on plastic bags use expected in Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Punjab Minister for Environment Protection Muhammad Rizwan has announced that a ban on plastic bag usage is expected to be imposed in the Punjab as a follow-up to the similar measures recently introduced in Islamabad, a news source reported. Rizwan made this announcement during a meeting held at his office on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-continue-drive-against-plastic-bags-gul.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Govt to continue with its drive against plastic bags: Gul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For this purpose, a proposal has been sent to the chief secretary by the Environment Protection Bureau in this regard. This development is being made keeping in mind the hazardous effects of plastic bags on the environment. They are one of the main causes of environmental degradation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/government-to-explore-alternatives-to-plastic-bags.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Government to explore alternatives to plastic bags<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The minister told members present at the meeting that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/legal-act-works-ban-plastic-bags-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill will be tabled<\/a> in the provincial assembly to create proper legislation for this ban. He also added that orders regarding plastic shopper bags from the Supreme Court will be implemented soon with an aim to entirely eradicate their use by the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Punjab Minister for Environment Protection Muhammad Rizwan has announced that a ban on plastic bag usage is expected to be imposed in the Punjab as a follow-up to the similar measures recently introduced in Islamabad, a news source reported. Rizwan made this announcement during a meeting held at his office on Tuesday. Read:\u00a0Govt to continue with its drive against plastic bags: Gul For this purpose, a proposal has been sent to the chief secretary by the Environment Protection Bureau in this regard. This development is being made keeping in mind the hazardous effects of plastic bags on the environment. They are one of the main causes of environmental degradation. Read:\u00a0Government to explore alternatives to plastic bags The minister told members present at the meeting that a bill will be tabled in the provincial assembly to create proper legislation for this ban. He also added that orders regarding plastic shopper bags from the Supreme Court will be implemented soon with an aim to entirely eradicate their use by the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":10796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12786],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-ban-on-plastic-bags-use-expected-in-lahore"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ban on plastic bags use expected in Lahore - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: Punjab Minister for Environment Protection Muhammad Rizwan has announced that a ban on plastic bag usage is expected to be imposed in the Punjab\" \/>\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\/ban-on-plastic-bags-use-expected-in-lahore.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ban on plastic bags use expected in Lahore - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: Punjab Minister for Environment Protection Muhammad Rizwan has announced that a ban on plastic bag usage is expected to be imposed in the Punjab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ban-on-plastic-bags-use-expected-in-lahore.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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