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 ...

Researchers have devised a processing technique that can create transparent polythene film that can be stronger as aluminum but at a fraction of the weight, and which could be used use in glazing, ...

As a step towards curbing plastic pollution, State Minister for Climate Change Zartaj Gul has announced a blanket ban on the sale and purchase of polythene shopping bags in different cities of ...

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal gave the public quite the surprise when he proposed to withdraw the existing 5 percent supplementary duty on all types of polythene bags, plastic bags (including ...

In Dhaka's Madhubazar, a woman shopping for essentials handed a cloth bag to a grocery shopkeeper along with her list, asking him not to put the stuff in a polythene shopping bag. Shopkeeper Halim ...

The resultant dip in the usage of polythene bags due to the Lahore High Court’s infamous ban has been replaced with a renewed reliance on them by both Rawalpindi’s traders and consumers alike. This ...

fter having breakfast, I picked up the newspaper and settle down to my second cup of tea, a routine which I enjoy everyday. A letter to the editor about the use (or misuse) of polythene bags caught my ...

The Bangladesh Government has begun enforcing a complete ban on the sale and use of polythene bags in the capital, Dhaka. Environment Minister Shahajahan Siraj says the decision has been taken to save ...

According to a United Nations’s report, more than one million polythene bags are consumed in the world every minute. That’s an attractive number for a businessman, looking for an opportunity to cash ...