The Senate session during a motion tabled by the Opposition benches on Monday was informed that over 0.255 million plastic bottles were being discarded per annum in the country choking and polluting its natural water bodies, drains, rivers and the ocean ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Jun, 2024) The session during a motion tabled by the benches on Monday was informed that over 0.255 plastic bottles were being discarded per annum in the country choking and polluting its natural bodies, drains, rivers and the ocean.
Senator Mohsin Aziz of Tehreek-e-Insaf ( ) moved the motion demanding the House to discuss the need to ban manufacturing or use of 500 ml plastic bottles for drinking as the causes environmental hazards, chokes drainage system in the cities and is a source of pollution. Senator Mohsin Aziz while explaining the motion said the non-degradable one-time use plastics particularly bottles of 500ml and smaller in size have drastically degraded and damaged the scenic and pristine natural beauty of the country’s iconic bodies and rivers in the past four decades. The rivers, lakes, drains, tourist sites and bodies were overflown by plastic waste and plastic bottles comprised a major chunk of it including 500ml and below, he said.
The Senator noted that the developed and developing states recycling plastic waste were promoting on-source segregation to ensure effective recycling of the plastics. “It’s a non-degradable material that cannot decompose for .
