Laminated Posters In City Polls: A big threat to environment

Although they promised a clean and green Dhaka city, mayor and councillor candidates in the DSCC and the DNCC polls have flooded their areas with laminated posters, which are harmful for the environment. The candidates are using posters laminated with plastic to protect those from rainwater and humidity during the electioneering period. Visiting nine wards of the two city corporations, this correspondent found most of the posters were laminated. The situation is similar in areas in nearly 20 other wards, locals said. According to environmentalists, such posters pose a serious threat to the environment. They said the laminated posters could neither be destroyed nor recycled. Therefore, the posters will be in the dumping grounds for years only to add to environment pollution, they said, adding that the huge quantity of single-use plastic would clog the drains and cause waterlogging in the coming rainy season.

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Posted by admin on Jan 28 2020. Filed under Bangladesh Exclusive, News at Now, No Plastic. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry