{"id":70596,"date":"2020-09-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=70596"},"modified":"2020-09-16T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T12:56:29","slug":"kiln-owners-given-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kiln-owners-given-deadline.html","title":{"rendered":"Kiln owners in Rawalpindi given deadline to shift to zigzag technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rawalpindi: The Punjab Environment Protection Department (EPD) has provided notification of the deadline issued to brick kiln owners in the Rawalpindi Division for converting their setups to the more environmentally-friendly \u2018zigzag technology\u2019, a news source reported. To this effect, it directed the owners concerned to get their kilns converted by September 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department took the said action following the directive issued by Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kiln-owners-demand-relief-package-kil-industry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kiln owners demand relief package for brick industry<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the statistics shared by the EPD, only 7 out of the existing 180 kilns in Rawalpindi Division were converted to the zigzag technology while the remaining 172 continue to operate on the conventional technology, which not only causes environmental pollution but is also the cause of several deadly diseases such as cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, most of the kilns in the division are located in Mandara and Gujar Khan and the department is monitoring the smoke emission from these kilns. The EPD has also announced its decision to launch crackdown against these kilns from October 1; stating that the government has adopted zero-tolerance policy against environment pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-to-fund-brick-kilns-conversion-to-zigzag-technology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punjab to fund brick kilns conversion to zigzag technology<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incorporation of zigzag technology in kiln is less harmful for the environment as it emits the environment friendly white smoke instead of the toxic black smoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: The Punjab Environment Protection Department (EPD) has provided notification of the deadline issued to brick kiln owners in the Rawalpindi Division for converting their setups to the more environmentally-friendly \u2018zigzag technology\u2019, a news source reported. To this effect, it directed the owners concerned to get their kilns converted by September 30. The department took the said action following the directive issued by Supreme Court. Read: Kiln owners demand relief package for brick industry As per the statistics shared by the EPD, only 7 out of the existing 180 kilns in Rawalpindi Division were converted to the zigzag technology while the remaining 172 continue to operate on the conventional technology, which not only causes environmental pollution but is also the cause of several deadly diseases such as cancer. According to reports, most of the kilns in the division are located in Mandara and Gujar Khan and the department is monitoring the smoke emission from these kilns. The EPD has also announced its decision to launch crackdown against these kilns from October 1; stating that the government has adopted zero-tolerance policy against environment pollution. Read: Punjab to fund brick kilns conversion to zigzag technology The incorporation of zigzag technology in kiln&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":70599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[39653,39657,39658,39654,39655,39656],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-deadline-to-shift-kilns-to-zigzag-technology","9":"tag-kiln-owners-given-deadline-to-shift-to-zigzag-technology","10":"tag-kiln-owners-in-rawalpindi-given-deadline-to-shift-to-zigzag-technology","11":"tag-punjab-deadline-for-kiln-owners","12":"tag-punjab-kilns-on-zigzag-technology","13":"tag-zigzag-technology-for-brick-kilns","14":"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>Kiln owners given deadline to shift to zigzag technology - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As per the statistics shared by the EPD, only 7 out of the existing 180 kilns in Rawalpindi Division were converted to the zigzag technology...\" \/>\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\/kiln-owners-given-deadline.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kiln owners given deadline to shift to zigzag technology - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As per the statistics shared by the EPD, only 7 out of the existing 180 kilns in Rawalpindi Division were converted to the zigzag technology...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kiln-owners-given-deadline.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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