{"id":56693,"date":"2019-10-23T17:29:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=56693"},"modified":"2019-10-23T17:29:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T12:29:37","slug":"vendors-given-two-week-deadline-to-halt-sale-purchase-of-plastic-bags-in-peshawar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/vendors-given-two-week-deadline-to-halt-sale-purchase-of-plastic-bags-in-peshawar.html","title":{"rendered":"Vendors given two-week deadline to halt sale, purchase of plastic bags in Peshawar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government recently ordered local vendors to cease from the sale and purchase of polythene bags within a timeframe of two weeks, a news source quoted KP Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai as saying. As per details, any individual found buying or selling plastic bags within the province will be arrested and penalised following the deadline expiration date.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/climate-ministry-reports-90-drop-single-use-plastic-bags.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate ministry reports 90% drop in single-use plastic bags<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The minister made this announcement at an event held to create awareness regarding the harmful use of plastic bags. The provincial government organised the session in collaboration with the United National Development Programme in the KP Assembly. Lawmakers, including Mushtaq Ghani and Ziaullah Bangush, as well as district representatives from Peshawar were present at the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ban-on-plastic-bags-intended-to-make-country-greener-zartaj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ban on plastic bags intended to make country greener: Zartaj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The attendees were told that KP was among the top 10 provinces of the world where efforts to protect the environment were bringing about positive changes. The speakers mentioned that the Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s \u2018Billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 project had made huge contributions on this front. The KP govt also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-bans-use-of-plastic-bags.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned usage of plastic bags<\/a> in September this year.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/meeting-determines-plastic-bag-size-suitable-recycling-purpose.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meeting determines plastic bag size suitable for recycling purpose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Addressing the ceremony, Minister Yousafzai urged local lawmakers to become part of the campaign launched against the use of single-use plastic bags; adding that the provincial legislature had recently passed a bill to ban the use of polythene bags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government recently ordered local vendors to cease from the sale and purchase of polythene bags within a timeframe of two weeks, a news source quoted KP Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai as saying. As per details, any individual found buying or selling plastic bags within the province will be arrested and penalised following the deadline expiration date. Read:\u00a0Climate ministry reports 90% drop in single-use plastic bags The minister made this announcement at an event held to create awareness regarding the harmful use of plastic bags. The provincial government organised the session in collaboration with the United National Development Programme in the KP Assembly. Lawmakers, including Mushtaq Ghani and Ziaullah Bangush, as well as district representatives from Peshawar were present at the occasion. Read:\u00a0Ban on plastic bags intended to make country greener: Zartaj The attendees were told that KP was among the top 10 provinces of the world where efforts to protect the environment were bringing about positive changes. The speakers mentioned that the Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s \u2018Billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 project had made huge contributions on this front. The KP govt also banned usage of plastic bags in September this year. Read:\u00a0Meeting determines plastic bag size&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13571,13570],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-purchase-of-plastic-bags-in-peshawar","8":"tag-vendors-given-two-week-deadline-to-halt-sale"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vendors given two-week deadline to halt sale, purchase of plastic bags in Peshawar - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government recently ordered local vendors to cease from the sale and purchase of polythene bags within a timeframe\" \/>\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\/vendors-given-two-week-deadline-to-halt-sale-purchase-of-plastic-bags-in-peshawar.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vendors given two-week deadline to halt sale, purchase of plastic bags in Peshawar - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government recently ordered local vendors to cease from the sale and purchase of polythene bags within a timeframe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/vendors-given-two-week-deadline-to-halt-sale-purchase-of-plastic-bags-in-peshawar.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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