{"id":67768,"date":"2020-07-12T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=67768"},"modified":"2020-07-10T15:38:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T10:38:46","slug":"epa-bans-polythene-bags-in-quetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/epa-bans-polythene-bags-in-quetta.html","title":{"rendered":"EPA bans polythene bags in Quetta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quetta: The Balochistan Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposed a complete ban on the sale, purchase, use and manufacture of polythene bags in the provincial capital on Wednesday \u2013 effective immediately, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/epa-takes-up-task-purify-islamabads-environment-water.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EPA takes up task to purify Islamabad\u2019s environment, water<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the official notification issued by the EPA, the use of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/balochistan-prepares-three-tier-campaign-ban-plastic-use.html\" target=\"_blank\">polythene bags<\/a> in Quetta was an offence under the Balochistan Environmental Protection Act. The notice further warned that anyone who is found to be violating the law will be penalised under the said act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/nidm-to-prepare-balochistan-for-disaster-resilience.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NIDM to prepare Balochistan for disast<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/nidm-to-prepare-balochistan-for-disaster-resilience.html\">er-resilience<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, about the penalties for violations, large-scale enterprises can be imposed with a fine ranging from PKR 100,000 to PKR 500,000. Similarly, the medium-sized enterprises can be fined between PKR 80,000 to PKR 200,000. As for the small-scale enterprises, the fine is decided at PKR 20,000 to PKR 150,000. According to the Provincial Environment Secretary Saboor Kakar, these fines will be imposed by the district administration and the Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quetta: The Balochistan Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposed a complete ban on the sale, purchase, use and manufacture of polythene bags in the provincial capital on Wednesday \u2013 effective immediately, according to news sources. Read: EPA takes up task to purify Islamabad\u2019s environment, water As per the official notification issued by the EPA, the use of polythene bags in Quetta was an offence under the Balochistan Environmental Protection Act. The notice further warned that anyone who is found to be violating the law will be penalised under the said act. Read: NIDM to prepare Balochistan for disaster-resilience Furthermore, about the penalties for violations, large-scale enterprises can be imposed with a fine ranging from PKR 100,000 to PKR 500,000. Similarly, the medium-sized enterprises can be fined between PKR 80,000 to PKR 200,000. As for the small-scale enterprises, the fine is decided at PKR 20,000 to PKR 150,000. According to the Provincial Environment Secretary Saboor Kakar, these fines will be imposed by the district administration and the Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":61186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[19111,34297,34298],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ban-on-plastic-bag-use","9":"tag-epa-bans-polythene-bags-in-quetta","10":"tag-polythene-bags-in-quetta","11":"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>EPA bans polythene bags in Quetta - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Quetta: The Balochistan Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposed a complete ban on the sale, purchase, use and manufacture of polythene bags in 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\/epa-bans-polythene-bags-in-quetta.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPA bans polythene bags in Quetta - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Quetta: The Balochistan Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposed a complete ban on the sale, purchase, use and manufacture of polythene bags in the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/epa-bans-polythene-bags-in-quetta.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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