Shopkeepers fined for using polythene bags
ISLAMABAD-Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) along with city administration Tuesday imposed fines on shopkeepers using polythene bags.
A statement released by the MoCC referring to state minister Zartaj Gul said that no one would be spared if caught violating ban on polythene bag. Minister of State Zartaj Gul Wazir warned the public to shun manufacturing, selling and use of polythene bags or face huge fines and confiscations. “Experiences have shown that the use of polythene bags has already played havoc with environment, natural ecosystems and public health. Thus, we no longer afford and tolerate manufacturing, sale, import and use of the environmental nuisance anymore,” the state minister remarked, while talking to media here today after sending off the polythene bags ban enforcement teams to various business centres of the capital for monitoring the implementation of ban on polythene bags.
She stressed that those who don’t shun the use of polythene bags despite alternative bags’ availability in adequacy in the markets at affordable prices are actually foes of the people and environment.
The enforcement teams have been reactivated and directed to visit the markets and other areas and impose fines on those found violating the ban on polythene bags. These teams comprise senior officials from the climate change ministry, Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory administration and Islamabad Police. The enforcement teams visited the markets for ensuring all-out enforcement of the ban on polythene bags since March 1. Polythene bags measuring hundreds of kilogrammes have been confiscated from shops and fines to the tune of thousands of rupees have been imposed over last two days in city’s bustling markets Aabpara market and G-9 Markaz, said Joint Secretary Syed Mujtaba Hussain.
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