Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution, Dhaka has ranked the fourth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI). The city had an AQI score of 196 as of 8:27am on Friday. The air was classified as "unhealthy," reports UNB. Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar, Pakistan’s Lahore and India’s Delhi occupied the top three positions in the […]
A new sticker program is making Brits rethink their shopping habits. Some city supermarkets in the UK have started adding a new sticker to the packaging of some of their most popular products. The sticker lists the expiration date of the plastic wrapping used for the product, and more often than not its lifespan is […]
Port Otago will start to measure air quality at its Port Chalmers base this year, chief executive Kevin Winders says. Otago Regional Council chairwoman Marian Hobbs wrote, in her governance report tabled at the end of January, that despite significant improvements in noise pollution levels "there are still significant issues about air quality" in the […]
China, one of the world's biggest users of plastic, has unveiled a major plan to reduce single-use plastics across the country. Non-degradable bags will be banned in major cities by the end of 2020 and in all cities and towns by 2022. The restaurant industry will also be banned from using single-use straws by the […]
The new coronavirus has infected more than 28,000 people, and at least 563 have died. But relatively few children appear to have developed severe symptoms so far, according to the available data. “The median age of patients is between 49 and 56 years,” according to a report published on Wednesday in JAMA. “Cases in children have […]
There is a major concern over the disposal of tonnes of laminated campaign posters without causing further damage to the environment and public health. The city corporations yesterday started taking down the posters, most of which contain a non-degradable laminating film. Officials at Dhaka north and south city corporations said it would take them well […]
There is a major concern over the disposal of tonnes of laminated campaign posters without causing further damage to the environment and public health. The city corporations yesterday started taking down the posters, most of which contain a non-degradable laminating film. Officials at Dhaka north and south city corporations said it would take them well […]
On Sunday, 19 January 2020, ESDO organized Awareness Campaigns on Single Use Plastic (SUP) ban issue in different markets and shopping malls of Dhanmondi area in Dhaka City. IEC materials such as leaflets, flyers and factsheets were distributed among the people to create mass awareness about the harmful impacts of single use plastic. To raise […]
Environment and Social Development Organization secretary general Shahriar Hossain said that for low-quality products in the market in Bangladesh was responsible for a sizable e-waste every year while the country had no mechanism of e-waste management. He said that the substandard products flooding the market also cheated the customers out of the prices they pay […]
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