Govt to impose ban on plastic bags in Islamabad by August

ISLAMABAD - Government of Pakistan is taking an initiative to make the country pollution and plastic free for this, the State Minister for Climate Change Zartaj Gul has announced a heavy fine of   PKR 500,000 over the use or selling single-use polythene bags after August 14 in the federal capital (Islamabad).

Zartaj Gul guided the Senate’s sub-committee on climate change that the government would take strict action over the violation of the ban on plastic bags and urged the people to use cloth’s bags as an alternative to polythene bags.

Earlier on May 9, Minister of State for Climate Chang had revealed that the government would impose a ban on single-use plastic bags in Islamabad by August 14, 2019.

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Responding to a question in the National Assembly, Zartaj Gul had urged the masses to use cotton bags as an alternative to plastic bags.

Gul had said that a statutory regulatory order (SRO) under the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act 1997 was being drafted to give legal cover to the proposed ban.

Let's make Pakistan an Eco-friendly state. 

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