{"id":55047,"date":"2019-09-09T09:07:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=55047"},"modified":"2020-03-06T12:20:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T07:20:11","slug":"meeting-determines-plastic-bag-size-suitable-recycling-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/meeting-determines-plastic-bag-size-suitable-recycling-purpose.html","title":{"rendered":"Meeting determines plastic bag size suitable for recycling purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: On Thursday, a consultation meeting was held at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to discuss the draft act which concerned the mechanism devised to recycle plastic bags, a news source reported. The session was successful in deciding the size and thickness of plastic bags suitable for recycling and being used in a sustainable economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/legal-act-works-ban-plastic-bags-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Legal act in works to ban plastic bags in Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was agreed upon during the session that plastic bags should be 12 x 15 inches in size and 45 to 50 microns in thickness which will allow recycling of the bags. The session decided that the Plastic Bag Association, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ban-on-plastic-bags-use-expected-in-lahore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lahore<\/a> Waste Management Company (LWMC) and the Environment Department will focus on recycling and work together to enforce it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/campaign-discourage-plastic-bags-use-begins.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Campaign to discourage plastic bags use begins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The LCCI president and vice president stated that closure of the entire industry was not a sustainable solution. They suggested that the government should instead change the rules to meet the needs of current times by consulting with the Plastic Bag Association. The association has a research and development department and a standing committee on environment which can aid the government\u2019s work towards new legislation, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: On Thursday, a consultation meeting was held at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to discuss the draft act which concerned the mechanism devised to recycle plastic bags, a news source reported. The session was successful in deciding the size and thickness of plastic bags suitable for recycling and being used in a sustainable economy. Read:\u00a0Legal act in works to ban plastic bags in Punjab It was agreed upon during the session that plastic bags should be 12 x 15 inches in size and 45 to 50 microns in thickness which will allow recycling of the bags. The session decided that the Plastic Bag Association, the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) and the Environment Department will focus on recycling and work together to enforce it. Read:\u00a0Campaign to discourage plastic bags use begins The LCCI president and vice president stated that closure of the entire industry was not a sustainable solution. They suggested that the government should instead change the rules to meet the needs of current times by consulting with the Plastic Bag Association. The association has a research and development department and a standing committee on environment which can aid the government\u2019s work towards new legislation,&hellip;<\/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":[15181],"tags":[12903],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-details-on-meeting-determines-plastic-bag-size-suitable-for-recycling-purpose","9":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meeting determines plastic bag size suitable for recycling purpose - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: On Thursday, a consultation meeting was held at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to discuss the draft act which concerned the\" \/>\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\/meeting-determines-plastic-bag-size-suitable-recycling-purpose.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meeting determines plastic bag size suitable for recycling purpose - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: On Thursday, a consultation meeting was held at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to discuss the draft act which concerned the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/meeting-determines-plastic-bag-size-suitable-recycling-purpose.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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