Polythene bags used to suffocate lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and their driver Joseph Muiruri may have been provided by police officer Paul Mwangi. A trial court yesterday heard ...

Although Bangladesh became the first country in the world to announce a complete ban on the use of polythene bags in 2002, strict enforcement of the much-lauded initiative has only started taking ...

You are likely to enjoy carrying your shopping from the supermarket in a polythene bag for just a few more weeks, as it will soon be illegal to carry a polythene paper bag in the city. The County ...

After a routine shopping trip to the superstore, Abul Bashar received his frozen goods in what seemed like an ordinary fabric bag, but in reality, it was made of polypropylene—a type of plastic.

The government is planning to launch mobile court drives across Bangladesh on Sunday in a bid to crack down on polythene manufacturers. Tapan Kumar Biswas, additional secretary of the Ministry of ...

Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Sunday said enforcement of the restriction on polythene is a must to ensure a healthy future for children. The government will take harsher measures to ...

In a week, the government is set to impose a complete ban on polyethylene or polypropylene-based materials like shopping bags in supermarkets. The ban will be extended to traditional markets from ...

In a rapidly growing yet underdeveloped pocket of Mohammadpur, the 2002 ban feels like a fairy tale we used to read before going to sleep at night in our childhood. The disconnect between policy and ...

A company has started a free, mobile scheme to collect and squash waste plastic - meaning it can be reused. Oxfordshire-based packaging company Polythene UK uses a van with an onboard compactor to ...