ISLAMABAD: Having spearheaded public awareness campaign regarding ban on polythene bags and its harmful environmental impacts, Minister of State Zartaj Gul Wazir on Tuesday warned citizens to shun manufacturing, selling and using polythene bags or face huge fines and confiscations.
“Experiences have shown that the use of polythene bags has already played havoc with environment, natural ecosystems and public health. We no longer afford and tolerate manufacturing, sale, import and use of the environmental nuisance anymore,” she said while talking to media after sending off polythene bags ban enforcement teams to various business centres of the capital city.
She said those who did not shun the use of polythene bags despite sufficient availability of alternative bags at affordable prices were actually foes of the people and environment.
From March 1, users of single-use polythene bags at any level in the federal capital would be fined, the Ministry of Climate Change has warned. Dawn/File
ISLAMABAD: From March 1, users of single-use polythene bags at any level in the federal capital would be fined, the Ministry of Climate Change warned on Friday.
“Anyone found using selling or manufacturing them will face a fine,” said Joint Secretary Syed Mujtaba Hussain of the ministry, who is leading the implementation of the ban on polythene bags.
Speaking at a public awareness rally attended by students and academia at the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), he said from next month there would be a strict check on the use, sale and manufacturing of the single-use plastic bags.