{"id":56448,"date":"2019-10-17T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T12:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=56448"},"modified":"2019-10-17T17:49:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T12:49:26","slug":"ban-on-plastic-bags-intended-to-make-country-greener-zartaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ban-on-plastic-bags-intended-to-make-country-greener-zartaj.html","title":{"rendered":"Ban on plastic bags intended to make country greener: Zartaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul has said that the government&#8217;s ban on single-use plastic bags is aimed at ridding the national marketplace of an estimated 55 billion bags each year \u2013 paving the way for a &#8216;greener&#8217; country, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-launches-new-plastic-bags-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Punjab launches new plastic bags policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She was speaking at an event organised by Oxfam Pakistan and Hashoo Foundation in their efforts to address country\u2019s plastic bag pollution crisis. The project aims to explore sustainable solutions through the engagement of women entrepreneur in a bid to counter the effects of pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-begins-implementation-plastic-bags-ban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sindh begins implementation of plastic bags ban<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She said that the country was seeing a massive rural-urban migration along with rapid urbanisation, which was bad for environment as the communities lacked the understanding of living in harmony with nature.The minister added that the ban was a part of Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s \u2018Clean and Green Pakistan\u2019 initiative launched last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul has said that the government&#8217;s ban on single-use plastic bags is aimed at ridding the national marketplace of an estimated 55 billion bags each year \u2013 paving the way for a &#8216;greener&#8217; country, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0Punjab launches new plastic bags policy She was speaking at an event organised by Oxfam Pakistan and Hashoo Foundation in their efforts to address country\u2019s plastic bag pollution crisis. The project aims to explore sustainable solutions through the engagement of women entrepreneur in a bid to counter the effects of pollution. Read:\u00a0Sindh begins implementation of plastic bags ban She said that the country was seeing a massive rural-urban migration along with rapid urbanisation, which was bad for environment as the communities lacked the understanding of living in harmony with nature.The minister added that the ban was a part of Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s \u2018Clean and Green Pakistan\u2019 initiative launched last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":43112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13481],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-ban-on-plastic-bags-intended-to-make-country-greener-zartaj"},"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 intended to make country greener: Zartaj - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul has said that the government&#039;s ban on single-use plastic bags is aimed at ridding the national\" \/>\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-intended-to-make-country-greener-zartaj.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 intended to make country greener: Zartaj - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul has said that the government&#039;s ban on single-use plastic bags is aimed at ridding the national\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ban-on-plastic-bags-intended-to-make-country-greener-zartaj.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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