Plastic bags, particularly single-use plastics, have become a major cause for environmental pollution in Bangladesh.

Plastic bags, particularly single-use plastics, have become a major cause for environmental pollution in Bangladesh. The use of jute sacks to package 19 commodities remains a far cry 13 years past ...

Singh also projected that sales of jute products for the year are expected ... impact from the current price revision in sacking bags to mills is estimated to be anywhere between 6-8%, taking ...

Jute shopping bags will be distributed at subsidised rates to the public as an alternative to polythene bags, said Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate ...

Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Saturday said that jute bags would be provided to the public as an alternative to ...

In India, the world's largest consumer of sugar, the federal government and producers have locked horns in court over a ...

Bangladesh became the first nation on Earth to ban single-use plastic bags. Since then, plastic pollution has gotten worse. To find a biodegradable replacement, the government turned to jute, a ...

The Indian government is defending a law from 1987 that mandates sugar mills to package at least 20% of their output in jute bags. Officials say the measure is not just about supporting a ...

Farmers will cultivate jute on 9,950 hectares of land in Rangpur, 14,560 hectares in Gaibandha, 17,250 hectares in Kurigram, ...