Polythene shopping bags are slowly making a comeback in the market despite the government ban on its production, marketing and use. Manufacturers of polythene bags are making profits again as ...

Despite regular drives conducted by the Department of Environment (DoE), the manufacturing and the use of environmentally hazardous polythene bags are still rampant in the premier port city. On August ...

Despite getting banned in 2002, polythene has managed to stick around in the Bangladeshi markets as producers, wholesalers, suppliers, and consumers all continue to use polythene bags indiscriminately ...

It is a matter with the attitudes of people. If they willingly adjust to consuming biodegradable products, this ban becomes necessarily meaningful. The Chairman of the Central Environment Authority ...

Three months have passed after the ban on thin polythene, making March 31 the final day for the public to use thin polythene, but with thicker polythene replacing the thin variety no proper ...

Mathura jail is all set to start production of polythene based Improvised Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) kit, developed by IIT Kanpur researchers, for use of their staff and sanitation workers at ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday dismantled an unauthorised polythene carry bag manufacturing unit at Bhagawanpur. The illegal unit may be sealed BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar ...