plastic ban

According to a United Nations’s report, more than one million polythene bags are consumed in the world every minute. That’s an attractive number for a businessman, looking for an opportunity to cash this viable commercial opportunity. But for an environmentalist, it’s an alarming figure that sets off a million warning bells ringing in his or her head. There is no denying the fact that a battle between proponents and opponents of polythene has been going on ever since Bangladesh became the first nation to ban the use of thin polythene bags in 2002. The battle has grown ferocious, year after…