Dhaka, 28 January, 2020: More than ten thousand ton of laminated plastic waste is generated from different sources in Dhaka every year, which causes health hazards and environmental havoc. ESDO has conducted a Study on \u201cThermal lamination films: An Incising Health Hazards and Environmental Havoc of Dhaka City\u201d, which focused exclusively on laminated posters, leaflets, stickers being used in the city. Study findings were disclosed through a press briefing arranged by Environment and Social Development Organization-ESDO on 28 January, 2020, Tuesday at its Head Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the study in 2019 about 7145.2 ton of laminated plastic waste was generated and in 2020 it\u2019s expected to hit up to 10438 ton. These plastics are not recyclable, so it may cause serious health and environmental problem for the city dwellers. ESDO urged for immediate preventive actions in this regard for the sake of public health and environmental protection. Particularly they requested to the Bangla Academy authority and others exhibitors to stop and not to allow laminated poster, leaflets, and sticker in the upcoming Amar Ekushey Bookfair, tradeshows and exhibitions scheduled throughout 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the briefing, ESDO Chairperson Syed Marghub Murshed informed that, as ESDO started its campaign against laminated posters and other plastic coated materials at the beginning of the two DCC election campaign; taking into account the issue, High Court division ordered authorities concerned to immediately stop production and display of laminated election posters in order to save environment on January 22, 2020. The court also asked the authorities to properly dispose the laminated posters which have already been produced and displayed in Dhaka, ahead of the city corporation elections. ESDO hope that this situation will be considered seriously and steps to regulate and ban such plastic coating will be taken immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ESDO conducted the \nstudy on potential generation of laminated plastic waste in Dhaka from 6\nmost prominent sources including – DSCC and DNCC Election, Newspaper\nSupplements, Dhaka International Trade fair, Amar Ekushey Bookfair, scheduled\nlarge scale fairs, exhibitions and tradeshows and other advertising leaflets\nprovided by restaurants, beauty parlors and commercial institutes. This year,\nan estimated 304 million plastic laminated posters have been printed and\ndisplayed by the DCC election candidates.Other than the posters, stickers,\ngeneral cards and volunteer ID cards used for promotional purpose are also\ncovered with plastic lamination sheets. Estimated 2472 ton of laminated plastic\nwaste are generated within 12 days of the DSCC & DNCC elections campaign\nstarted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daily Newspapers is another means of plastic laminated\nmaterial distribution in Dhaka city. ESDO Study finds that, most popular\nnewspapers with significantly higher circulation come with at least one plastic\nlaminated advertising leaflet on regular basis. Apparently, an estimated 227 tons of wastes is coming\nfrom the laminated leaflet materials provided with the popular daily newspapers.\nFor the study purpose, top 5 Newspapers have been considered in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Syed Marghub Murshed said, considering the gravity of the plastic pollution situation, ESDO, along with the other NGO’s did a writ petition to the High Court Division. This resulted in an order to the authorities concerned to enforce ban on polythene bag and stop using single-use plastic by 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. ShahriarHossain informed that, this laminated plastic\nwaste eventually find their way into dump stations and drains resulting in\nmassive plastic pollution. He said,these single used plastic wastes will create\nserious waste management and environmental hazards, those leading to epidemic\nof water and airborne disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ESDO\nChairperson and Former Secretary Syed MarghubMurshed, Principle Technical\nAdvisor-ESDO Professor Abu JafarMahmood, MdZiaulHaque, Director DoE; Secretary\nGeneral of ESDO Dr. ShahriarHossain; Executive Director Siddika Sultana and\nExecutive Board Member ShahnazMunir were present with other study team members\nof ESDO. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Background\nInformation:<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1989, under the leadership of Dr. ShahriarHossain a few\nenthusiastic people initiated anti polythene campaigning in Bangladesh. ESDO is\nthe first organization initiated\ncampaign against the single use plastic shopping bag in 1990 and organized a\nnation-wide anti-polythene campaign. After long efforts ESDO is\nsucceeded to ban the production and use of polythene in January 1, 2002 in\nDhaka city and March 1, 2002 in countrywide. Now ESDO is focusing on banning\nSingle-Use Plastics (SUP).This resulted in an order to\nthe authorities concerned to enforce ban on polythene bag and stop using\nsingle-use plastic by 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more\nInformation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nazma Ahmed<\/p>\n\n\n\n Program Associate <\/p>\n\n\n\n Email:nazma@esdo.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n Environment and Social Development Organization (ESDO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dhaka, 28 January, 2020: More than ten thousand ton of laminated plastic waste is generated from different sources in Dhaka every year, which causes health hazards and environmental havoc. ESDO has conducted a Study on \u201cThermal lamination films: An Incising Health Hazards and Environmental Havoc of Dhaka City\u201d, which focused exclusively on laminated posters, leaflets, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4025","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\/4025","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=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4107,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions\/4107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}