We are grateful to the High Court of Bangladesh for their ruling (06 January,2020)\non enforcement of existing ban on polythene bags and failure to control use of\nsingle use plastic and, order to develop & implement work plan to control\nuse of single use plastic & find safe alternatives by 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of the ESDO, Chairperson Syed MarghubMurshed, Dr. ShahriarHossain (Secretary General), Ms. Siddika Sultana (Executive Director) gave a joint\nstatement and expressed their gratefulness over yesterday’s (Tuesday, 7th\nJanuary, 2020) ruling of the High Court Division’s order to the\nauthoritieseconcerend to strictly enforce the ban of polythene bag and to enforce ban on use of single-use\nplasticby 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In their statement\nthey said, \u201cThis rule ordered by our High Court is a landmark for the country\nand a positive recognition to ESDO`s movement against the usage of polythene\nand single-use plastic which has been our organization’s diligent work for the\nlast three decades. They also said that this rule will protect our country`s\nenvironment from the plastic pollution and give a positive outcome through the\njoint efforts of the Government, ESDO and public”. ESDO has called the\nrelevant ministries and concern authorities to take steps towards\nimplementation of this ruling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this statement ESDO has also given\ntheir sincere thanks to Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers\nAssociation (BELA) along with other 10 organizations for their support\nand petition of ban over the usage of polythene bags and single-use plastic\npackaging\/ product. They thanked AdvocateSyedaRizwanaHasan,\nchief executive of BELA and Advocate Syed Ahmed Kabir\nfor conducting the hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ESDO also praised the role of\nmedia and electronic print media for their movement against the pollution of\npolythene and plastic bag in this statement. They said that electronic and\nprint media gave continuous coverage and published reports which played a\nspecial role to raise a public awareness against polythene pollution and\nsingle-use plastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of ESDO, they also\nexpressed their gratitude to the government and the people of Bangladesh for\ntheir role on protecting the environment and urged them to continue their\nsupport and appropriate initiatives to implement the court order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nazma Ahmed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Program Associate<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Environment and Social\nDevelopment Organization-ESDO<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are grateful to the High Court of Bangladesh for their ruling (06 January,2020) on enforcement of existing ban on polythene bags and failure to control use of single use plastic and, order to develop & implement work plan to control use of single use plastic & find safe alternatives by 2021. On behalf of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press_release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3888,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/3888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}