Dr Farhina Ahmed, secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, said on Saturday that drives will be launched from November 1 against those producing polythene shopping bags.

Chinese scientists say they have identified a blend of marine bacteria that appears capable of breaking down polythene, one of the most ubiquitous plastics on the planet and source of much of the ...

The Dairy, Fisheries and Animal Resources Department has issued a public advisory warning about the severe health risks posed by polythene to animals, describing it as a “silent killer” and urged ...

Researchers have devised a processing technique that can create transparent polythene film that can be stronger as aluminum but at a fraction of the weight, and which could be used use in glazing, ...

In Dhaka's Madhubazar, a woman shopping for essentials handed a cloth bag to a grocery shopkeeper along with her list, asking him not to put the stuff in a polythene shopping bag. Shopkeeper Halim ...

Introduction: Polythene bags have been showed to be effective in temperature control of premature babies in the delivery room. Both, the Advanced Paediatric Life Support and the Newborn Life Support ...

Although the development of a biodegradable polymer from jute fibre by a Bangladeshi scientist had raised environmentalist’s hopes of reducing the use of polythene bags, commercial production of the ...

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 ...

A Bangladeshi scientist has synthesised a polymer from jute fibre which can be used to create a kind of bag that works, looks and feels like a polythene bag but without the negative environmental ...

RECORDS of damage to polythene by insects are now fairly frequent. The larva of the common household pest Hofmannophila pseudospretella Stainton (the Brown House or False Clothes moth) is known to eat ...

It was at the end of the 19th century when a German scientist, Hans von Pechmann, discovered a waxy residue at the bottom of his test tube. He had little idea of the material's significance; he was ...