Sindh´s ban on plastic bags to begin with Sukkur district
(WorldNews Pakistan)

The Sindh cabinet has made a historic and environmentally friendly decision to ban the use of plastic bags across the province, starting with District Sukkur, where the ban will be implemented within three months, following which it will be expanded to other districts. The cabinet meeting, which was held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah at the new Sindh secretariat on Saturday, was attended by Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, IGP Kaleem Imam and provincial ministers, advisers, special assistants and secretaries. The meeting was told that a normal polythene bag takes 400 to 1,000 years to degrade, and it is a startling fact that almost every piece of plastic ever made still...