The Department of Environment has fined a factory called Nayan Packaging Tk 100,000 for making banned polythene in the Chourhas area of Kushtia Sadar upazila, seized 845 kilograms of polythene and shut the factory down, Barta24 reports.
The mobile court sat on Tuesday, 29 September as part of the department's regular anti-polythene drives in Kushtia. The department said the factory was producing banned polythene in breach of the Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act 1995 (amended 2010); a case was filed under section 6(a) and the fine was collected on the spot.
The seized polythene is being held in the store of the department's Kushtia district office. The court was conducted by assistant commissioner and executive magistrate Monira Akter, with senior chemist Md Habibul Basar as chief prosecutor and inspector Nasrin Sultana as prosecutor.
Habibul Basar said drives against the production, storage and use of banned polythene, which harms the environment, will continue regularly. The report is by Barta24's Kushtia correspondent.
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Source: Barta24
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