Plastic most lethal among all waste
Plastics are silently piling on the environmental miseries of Bangladesh, one of the most climate change-vulnerable countries in the world.
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Plastics are silently piling on the environmental miseries of Bangladesh, one of the most climate change-vulnerable countries in the world.
Bangladesh earned its first-ever revenue from carbon credits – permits that allow the owner to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases – way back in 2006, when the Infrastructure Development Company Limited (Idcol) registered its maiden clean development mechanism project with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has asked all government offices at the district level and coastal areas to take measures for stopping the use of single-use plastic.
Bangladesh’s plastic consumption in urban areas tripled in the 15 years to 2020, found a World Bank study, in what can be viewed as a setback for the government’s efforts to beat plastic pollution.