Pakistan Uses 50 Billion Plastic Bags Per Year: Report

[Zibago]

16 mins ago by Ambreen Shabbir

• Climate Change Ministry to Ban Plastic Bags & Set Up Recycling Plant
  
  In Pakistan, the EPD has served notices to all traders in Islamabad to implement a ban on the usage of plastic bags. The department also published advertisements in newspapers to spread awareness regarding the hazards of plastic.
  
  However, all these measures did not bear fruit, as the ban has not had any effect.
  
  Earlier, Sindh government had imposed a ban on manufacturing, sale, purchase, and use of polythene bags in 1994. Punjab did the same in 1995 while Balochistan levied a complete ban on polythene bags in 2001. The Khyber Pakhtunwa administration has also banned them.
  
  As for the federal government, it prohibited the manufacturing, sale, and purchase of the plastic shopping bags in Islamabad in 2013.
  
  Regardless of these bans, several plastic manufacturing industries have been operating without any consideration for environmental protection and have not obtained any Non-Objection Certificates (NOC) for that matter
  

https://propakistani.pk/2019/02/18/...IWd92eapn-eoUdP99fnEk3qd6iv5bs9MRkglSOYCrBSIQ

 

[313ghazi]

In the UK a charge for plastic bags works. There should be a Rs5 charge per plastic bag. People will soon start re-using them, or use cotton/hemp bags, or shops will switch to paper bags.

I opposed the plastic bag charge initially, but actually in reality it's ok. I just keep loads of bags in my car now and recycle them until they break.

 

[Path-Finder]

introduce bio-degradable bags for life! That what I use and I rarely use Plastic bags. Ban plastic bags completely and bags manufacturing using organic materials could create an industry!

 

[waz]

Disgusting menace which litters Pakistan. I've found them in mountain creeks! Imagine the damage they are doing.
Jute bags or bamboo bags can be made plenty in Pakistan and even if they are thrown can just break down into the environment naturally.

 

[Zibago]

Disgusting menace which litters Pakistan. I've found them in mountain creeks! Imagine the damage they are doing.
Jute bags or bamboo bags can be made plenty in Pakistan and even if they are thrown can just break down into the environment naturally.

Replacing them with biodegradable is the best option as they function in the same way

 

[313ghazi]

The number just struck me. 200 million people - 50 billion bags.

That's 250 bags per person per year.

Compare this to the UK where we use about 30 plastic bags per person, per year.

 

[waz]

Replacing them with biodegradable is the best option as they function in the same way

I know, I mean come on Jute! Pakistan has a big industry in it.

 

[HAIDER]

Cause of flooding in urban area.

 

[Zibago]

I know, I mean come on Jute! Pakistan has a big industry in it.

Dawn bread and Metro cash and carry started this trend of biodegradable shopping bags it should catch on
They are not that different just slightly more expensive

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Cloth Bags help Pakistan Textile industry
Cloth Bags are bio degradable
Colth Bags are reusabale and you can keep them clean by washing

• For a Textile based country usage of Cloth Bags should be priority to reduce Plastic chemical imprint

 

[nahtanbob]

16 mins ago by Ambreen Shabbir

• Climate Change Ministry to Ban Plastic Bags & Set Up Recycling Plant
  
  In Pakistan, the EPD has served notices to all traders in Islamabad to implement a ban on the usage of plastic bags. The department also published advertisements in newspapers to spread awareness regarding the hazards of plastic.
  
  However, all these measures did not bear fruit, as the ban has not had any effect.
  
  Earlier, Sindh government had imposed a ban on manufacturing, sale, purchase, and use of polythene bags in 1994. Punjab did the same in 1995 while Balochistan levied a complete ban on polythene bags in 2001. The Khyber Pakhtunwa administration has also banned them.
  
  As for the federal government, it prohibited the manufacturing, sale, and purchase of the plastic shopping bags in Islamabad in 2013.
  
  Regardless of these bans, several plastic manufacturing industries have been operating without any consideration for environmental protection and have not obtained any Non-Objection Certificates (NOC) for that matter

https://propakistani.pk/2019/02/18/...IWd92eapn-eoUdP99fnEk3qd6iv5bs9MRkglSOYCrBSIQ

I have switched to taking our own bags in the West. 50 billion for 200 million is 250 bags per person per year
I still get 50 or so plastic bags because I forget to take my own bag

 

[Flash_Ninja]

In the UK a charge for plastic bags works. There should be a Rs5 charge per plastic bag. People will soon start re-using them, or use cotton/hemp bags, or shops will switch to paper bags.

I opposed the plastic bag charge initially, but actually in reality it's ok. I just keep loads of bags in my car now and recycle them until they break.

Actually I heard that it had no impact on the amount of bags being reused. I must have at least two dozen plastic bags around my flat so it kinda makes sense.

Its probably more worthwhile to ban all plastic bags, and encourage manufacturers to start adopting biodegradable packaging for their products

 

[313ghazi]

Actually I heard that it had no impact on the amount of bags being reused. I must have at least two dozen plastic bags around my flat so it kinda makes sense.

Its probably more worthwhile to ban all plastic bags, and encourage manufacturers to start adopting biodegradable packaging for their products

i read otherwise, but i know what you mean. I've got a boot load of plastic bags.

 

[Flash_Ninja]

i read otherwise, but i know what you mean. I've got a boot load of plastic bags.

Yeah your right actually, plastic bag sales are down 86% apparently; I remember being told that the environmental impact was not as high as other measures would have been


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance...ntended-consequences-of-the-5p-deterrent.html

 

[313ghazi]

Yeah your right actually, plastic bag sales are down 86% apparently; I remember being told that the environmental impact was not as high as other measures would have been


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance...ntended-consequences-of-the-5p-deterrent.html

i still keep collecting bags from the Pakistani supermarket. They don't charge 5p.

Get your sabzi, masalay and free carrier bags!