{"id":70891,"date":"2020-09-27T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=70891"},"modified":"2020-09-25T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:17:55","slug":"lhc-orders-cessation-of-polythene-bag-use-on-motorways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lhc-orders-cessation-of-polythene-bag-use-on-motorways.html","title":{"rendered":"LHC orders cessation of polythene bag use on motorways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday issued directives for the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) to restrict the use of polythene bags at tuck shops and hotels located alongside the motorways, according to a news source published on September 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/china-provides-pkr-25mn-for-karachis-urban-flooding-relief.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China provides PKR 25mn for Karachi\u2019s urban flooding relief measures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, a citizen had petitioned the court regarding various environmental issues. The petitioner\u2019s counsel Abuzar Salman Niazi stated that the use of polythene bags had been banned in the entire province of Punjab; however, several restaurants and tuck shops at the motorways were found violating the ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lhc-epa-plastic-bag-ban-plastic-bg-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LHC directs EPA to enforce plastic bag ban all over Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also raised issues of conservation of clean water and industrial emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, the judge directed the EPA to ensure strict enforcement of the ban in all restaurants, malls, and outlets working on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-requested-plant-trees-railway-tracks-motorways.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">motorways<\/a> and present a compliance report within a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday issued directives for the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) to restrict the use of polythene bags at tuck shops and hotels located alongside the motorways, according to a news source published on September 25. Read: China provides PKR 25mn for Karachi\u2019s urban flooding relief measures Previously, a citizen had petitioned the court regarding various environmental issues. The petitioner\u2019s counsel Abuzar Salman Niazi stated that the use of polythene bags had been banned in the entire province of Punjab; however, several restaurants and tuck shops at the motorways were found violating the ban. Read: LHC directs EPA to enforce plastic bag ban all over Punjab He also raised issues of conservation of clean water and industrial emissions. In response, the judge directed the EPA to ensure strict enforcement of the ban in all restaurants, malls, and outlets working on the motorways and present a compliance report within a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":60653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181,15017],"tags":[40245,40246,40340,40341],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-environment-protection-agency-epa","10":"tag-lahore-high-court-lhc","11":"tag-lhc-orders-cessation-of-polythene-bag-use-on-motorways","12":"tag-use-of-polythene-bags","13":"cat-15181-id","14":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LHC bans use of polythene bags on motorways - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"LHC on Thursday issued directives for the EPA to restrict the use of polythene bags at tuck shops and hotels located alongside the motorways\" \/>\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\/lhc-orders-cessation-of-polythene-bag-use-on-motorways.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LHC bans use of polythene bags on motorways - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LHC on Thursday issued directives for the EPA to restrict the use of polythene bags at tuck shops and hotels located alongside the motorways\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lhc-orders-cessation-of-polythene-bag-use-on-motorways.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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