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

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in 2005. In Dhaka city alone, the figure is the highest at 24 kg (53 lbs.). Though there is no study on the exact figure of single-use plastic bags in Bangladesh, the government’s Department of ...

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