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Experts for exploring strategies reducing plastic waste, creating livable urban future in Pakistan

Urdu Point 08 Jun 2023
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Jun, 2023 ).The experts on Thursday called for exploring strategies for reducing plastic waste, and creating a livable urban future in the country. A Twitter Space titled "Reducing Plastic Waste for a Livable Urban Future in Pakistan" was held on World Environment Day 2023.
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Sherry calls for unity to tackle plastic pollution in oceans

Urdu Point 08 Jun 2023
In her message on World Oceans Day, the federal minister said the Day was being celebrated all over the world including Pakistan ... Nature has blessed Pakistan with a marine ecosystem, harmful effects of plastic waste on our own oceans should not be ignored as Pakistan presents a 7Rs road-map to combat plastic pollution, Sherry Rehman added.
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Countrymen urged for collective actions to explore sustainable alternatives to plastic use

Urdu Point 08 Jun 2023
The discussion was held under the banner of "Reducing Plastic Waste for a Livable Urban Future in Pakistan" and was organized in connection with World Environment Day 2023 ... The event aimed to raise awareness, foster dialogue, and identify effective strategies for reducing plastic waste and creating livable urban spaces.
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SWM system in Attock district on the cards

Urdu Point 08 Jun 2023
ATTOCK, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Jun, 2023 ) .A Solid Waste Management (SWM) system across six tehsils of district Attock would be established to address environmental issues, deputy commissioner (DC) Rao Atif Raza said on Thursday.
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Rs. 1.26 billion disbursed among 375,150 beneficiaries under Benazir Nashonuma

Urdu Point 08 Jun 2023
ISLAMABAD, Jun 8 (UrduPoint / Pakistan ... Pakistan's high rates of malnutrition (40.2% stunting, 28.9% underweight, and 17.7% wasting) are indicative of an on-going child nutrition crisis. Such levels of malnutrition rank Pakistan as the second highest-burdened country in the region.
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LWMC imposes Rs 1.45m fine over littering in May

Urdu Point 08 Jun 2023
LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Jun, 2023 ) .The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC), during an operation, challaned 298 people and housing societies and collected Rs 1.45 million fine from them over littering ... of waste on roads across the city.
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LWMC CEO visits city to check zero waste mission

Urdu Point 07 Jun 2023
LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 7th Jun, 2023 ) .The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Babar Sahib Din on Wednesday visited different areas of the city to review the sanitation arrangements.
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RWMC distributes insurance cheques to two deceased families

Urdu Point 07 Jun 2023
RAWALPINDI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 7th Jun, 2023 ) .Chief Executive Officer of Rawalpindi Waste Management Company(RWMC)Rana Sajid Safdar on Wednesday distributed life insurance cheques of Rs 500,000 each to two sanitary workers' families who died of heart attacks.
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Speakers call for strategy to tackle e-waste in future

Urdu Point 07 Jun 2023
PESHAWAR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 7th Jun, 2023 ) .Speakers at a seminar here on Wednesday stressed a comprehensive plan to utilize biowaste for energy and proper disposal of e-waste that would become an environmental hazard in the near future.
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Markets to be closed across country by 8pm

The News International 07 Jun 2023
... closed down till 8 pm.The minister said when the developed world could not afford the luxury of keeping open commercial centres late at night, so how a country like Pakistan could afford to waste its hard-earned foreign exchange on the lighting of commercial areas till midnight.
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Pakistan moves to reduce plastic waste, approves regulation to prohibit single use of plastic

Gulf News 06 Jun 2023
Pakistan has kickstarted the journey to reduce plastic waste with the approval of “Single Use Plastics Prohibition Regulations 2023” by the federal cabinet ... Pakistan generates over 49.6 million tonnes of solid wastes annually and witnesses a 2.4 per cent increase every year, according to the International Trade Administration of the US.
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Political nexus, inefficient bureaucracy hurdle in beating plastic pollution

The News International 06 Jun 2023
Pakistan produced 3.9 million tons of plastic waste in 2020, over 65 percent of which was mismanaged. Eighteen percent of municipal solid waste produced in Pakistan is plastics ... Pakistan is producing about four million tons of plastic waste a year while the already produced plastic ...
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Indus River bringing entire Pakistan’s effluents to Sindh, laments SEPA

The News International 06 Jun 2023
Entire Pakistan is dumping its industrial and domestic waste into the Indus River, the lifeline of the country’s agriculture and economy, and when the river enters Sindh, people are forced to use highly contaminated water for drinking and agricultural purposes, officials said on Monday.
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Sherry Rehman for embracing 7Rs strategy to end plastic pollution through circular economy

Urdu Point 06 Jun 2023
ISLAMABAD, Jun 6 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 6th Jun, 2023 ) .Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Sherry Rehman has said it was high time for the country to ... "Pakistan is recycling very low in the informal sector as only 3-4% of the plastic waste is reprocessed.
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Malnutrition woes

Dawn 06 Jun 2023
In most developing countries, like Pakistan, malnutrition usually exists as an inability to meet standard nutritional targets due to the scarcity of food generally available in the country ... The cost of the lost future workforce in Pakistan due to underweight children, wasting and micronutrient deficiency is estimated at $2.24 billion per year.

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