EPA ensures compliance of prohibition of plastic bags

MG News | July 14, 2017 at 05:35 PM GMT+05:00

Add Mettisglobal as a Trusted Source on Google

0:00

Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) has initiated actions in commercial markets of Islamabad to ensure the compliance of Prohibition of Non-biodegradable Plastic Bags (Manufacturing, Sale, Usage and Disposal) 2013.

The Environmental Monitoring Team (EMT) comprising Khalid Mehmood Chadhar, Deputy Director (EE and TT), Saima Nazir, Deputy Director (GIS) and Madiha Naz, Assistant Director (GIS) coped with the Police escort of ICT conducted the monitoring of Super-Market, F-6, Islamabad, said a press release issued here on Friday.

During the visit, the each and every shop/store of the market were visited, whereas, only 19 stores/shops were found non-compliant, therefore, the legal notices were served on the spot to the owners/managers of said stores/shops and were called to appear on July 17, 2017 in the office of DG Pak-EPA for personal hearing under the law.

Pak-EPA is committed to make Islamabad a clean and plastic bag pollution free city. All citizens of Islamabad are requested to report any non-compliance and stop using plastic bags.

Related News

Name	Price/Vol	%Chg/NChg
KSE100	169,969.33 217.01M	0.22% 368.92
ALLSHR	102,892.63 587.53M	0.20% 206.37
KSE30	50,644.26 54.31M	0.37% 187.28
KMI30	243,608.50 54.80M	0.29% 708.93
KMIALLSHR	66,655.71 317.82M	0.13% 87.67
BKTi	47,135.99 14.01M	0.54% 251.49
OGTi	34,716.38 4.43M	-0.08% -29.36

Symbol	Bid/Ask	High/Low

Name	Last	High/Low	Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES	83,790.00	84,130.00 83,690.00	-135.00 -0.16%
BRENT CRUDE	98.29	98.53 97.63	0.26 0.27%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY	128.50	128.50 128.50	5.00 4.05%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY	142.95	142.95 137.95	5.65 4.12%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN	1,167.50	1,167.50 1,167.50	0.00 0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI	90.47	90.69 89.86	0.05 0.06%
SUGAR #11 WORLD	18.62	19.12 18.53	-0.22 -1.17%