{"id":73047,"date":"2025-05-05T13:40:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=73047"},"modified":"2025-05-05T13:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:40:26","slug":"sindh-to-completely-ban-plastic-bags-from-this-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sindh-to-completely-ban-plastic-bags-from-this-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Sindh to completely ban plastic bags from THIS date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Taking a major step to curb<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-built-its-first-drone-based-surveillance-system-to-combat-pollution\/\"> environmental pollution<\/a>, the Sindh government has decided to impose a complete ban on all types of plastic shopping bags across the province from June 15.<\/p>\n<p>A notification has also been issued by the Department of Environment, Climate Change, and Coastal Development in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>According to the notification, the ban will also apply to non-degradable, oxo-degradable, black and recycled plastic bags. This is the first time that a complete ban is being imposed on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sindh-bans-plastic-bag-usage-across-province\/\">plastic bags<\/a> after a partial ban in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This step has been taken under the amendment to the Sindh Prohibition of Non-Degradable Plastic Products Rules 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Environment Agha Shahnawaz has clarified that only eco-friendly bags will be allowed to be used, and full implementation of this policy will be ensured.<\/p>\n<p>He said that plastic bags are the basis of environmental destruction, now it is not just a declaration but strict action will be taken under zero tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Environment has appealed to the public for cooperation on this decision, declaring environmental protection a national responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Taking a major step to curb environmental pollution, the Sindh government has decided to impose a complete ban on all types of plastic shopping bags across the province from June 15. A notification has also been issued by the Department of Environment, Climate Change, and Coastal Development in this regard. According to the notification, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":47009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28432,24806],"class_list":["post-73047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-ban-on-plastic-bag","tag-environmental-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73051,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73047\/revisions\/73051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}