LAHORE: The Environment Protection and Climate Change Department (EPCCD) is developing a digital registry to map and monitor plastic bag production, as well as register all producers, distributors, collectors, and recycling units. This initiative is part of the Punjab government’s “No to Plastic” campaign. Punjab, the most populous province in Pakistan, accounts for over half of the country’s plastic consumption. Despite this, there has been a lack of data on the scale of plastic bag production, a source from the EPCCD told Dawn on Friday. According to WWF-Pakistan, the country…
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