{"id":61362,"date":"2020-02-13T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=61362"},"modified":"2020-02-13T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T08:00:43","slug":"punjab-govt-introduce-new-plastic-bag-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-introduce-new-plastic-bag-policy.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt to introduce new plastic bag policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lahore: The Punjab government has announced its decision to introduce a new policy pertaining to plastic bags, a news source reported. Environment Minister Muhammad Rizwan expressed his views on the matter at a seminar organised by the Environment Protection Department (EPD) and Agahee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-launches-new-plastic-bags-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Punjab launches new plastic bags policy (opens in a new tab)\">Punjab launches new plastic bags policy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He stated that the provincial government would incorporate\nthe reforms introduced by the Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) governments. He\nsaid that they had settle the issues of material, size, and thickness of\nplastic bags with the manufacturers\u2019 association. He added that the provincial government\nwas also constituting a scientific panel for providing more recommendations on\nthe matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the occasion, Chairman Judicial Commission and former Justice Ali Akbar stated that the Lahore High Court (LHC) had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-considers-banning-plastic-bags.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"banned use of plastic bags (opens in a new tab)\">banned use of plastic bags<\/a> at all mega stores in the provincial capital. He added that the court gave these stores a 15-day deadline to comply with the order and begin using alternatives to plastic shopping bags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EPD Director General (DG) Tanveer Waraich said that the EPD Punjab had already declared biodegradable plastic bags to be harmful to the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/legal-act-works-ban-plastic-bags-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Legal act in works to ban plastic bags in Punjab (opens in a new tab)\">Legal act in works to ban plastic bags in Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further, Justice Shahid Karim said that they were in the process of directing the provincial government to introduce a necessary legislation for banning manufacture, sale, and use of polythene bags. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has announced its decision to introduce a new policy pertaining to plastic bags, a news source reported. Environment Minister Muhammad Rizwan expressed his views on the matter at a seminar organised by the Environment Protection Department (EPD) and Agahee. Read: Punjab launches new plastic bags policy He stated that the provincial government would incorporate the reforms introduced by the Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) governments. He said that they had settle the issues of material, size, and thickness of plastic bags with the manufacturers\u2019 association. He added that the provincial government was also constituting a scientific panel for providing more recommendations on the matter. On the occasion, Chairman Judicial Commission and former Justice Ali Akbar stated that the Lahore High Court (LHC) had banned use of plastic bags at all mega stores in the provincial capital. He added that the court gave these stores a 15-day deadline to comply with the order and begin using alternatives to plastic shopping bags. EPD Director General (DG) Tanveer Waraich said that the EPD Punjab had already declared biodegradable plastic bags to be harmful to the environment. Read: Legal act in works to ban plastic bags in Punjab Further, Justice&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":60804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181,15020],"tags":[19111,19109,1008],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-61362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","category-social-developments","tag-ban-on-plastic-bag-use","tag-details-on-punjab-govt-to-introduce-new-plastic-bag-policy","tag-punjab","cat-15181-id","cat-15020-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab govt to introduce new plastic bag policy - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Punjab government has announced its decision to introduce a new policy pertaining to plastic bags, a news source reported.\" \/>\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\/punjab-govt-introduce-new-plastic-bag-policy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab govt to introduce new plastic bag policy - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Punjab government has announced its decision to introduce a new policy pertaining to plastic bags, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-introduce-new-plastic-bag-policy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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