Few items are as ubiquitous in modern life as the humble polythene bag. Lightweight, cheap, and readily available, polythene bags are handed out daily across Bangladesh, used to carry everything from ...

Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Sunday said enforcement of the restriction on polythene is a must to ensure a healthy future for children. The government will take harsher measures to ...

Dr Farhina Ahmed, secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, said on Saturday that drives will be launched from November 1 against those producing polythene shopping bags.

After a routine shopping trip to the superstore, Abul Bashar received his frozen goods in what seemed like an ordinary fabric bag, but in reality, it was made of polypropylene—a type of plastic.

Environmental stress cracking (ESC) is a predominant failure mode in polyethylene, whereby the combined action of mechanical stress and chemical agents initiates the formation of craze structures that ...

Haryana's Environment Minister Rao Narbir Singh on Friday said Gurugram will be made polythene-free in 3 months under pilot project. Officials from the Municipal Corporations of Manesar and Gurugram, ...

Anwar Hossain bought vegetables wrapped in two polythene bags from a shop in Muslim Bazar, a bustling corner in Dhaka’s Mirpur. After walking a short distance, he turned back to collect one more ...

Polyethylene accounts for nearly one-third of the world's plastic waste. An interdisciplinary team has now investigated the progressive degradation of polyethylene in the environment for the first ...

Sri Lanka, May 16 -- The Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) has filed a Fundamental Rights petition before the Supreme Court seeking a directive compelling the Government to introduce a levy on ...

The Central Environmental Authority has urged the public to refrain from using polythene and plastic products for Vesak decorations and dansals, warning that the use of several single-use plastic ...