The Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) has launched a stringent crackdown against the illegal units, established without formal approval of the authorities concerned in sector H-13 of the federal capital, burning plastic waste that was causing dark smoke and risk of smog. Director General Pak-EPA, Farzana Altaf Shah told APP via telephonic conversation that there were videos that went viral of H-13 Naseerabad area where people had illegally rented and established mega units burning scrap material particularly plastics for recycling purposes that were creating dark smoke screens into the atmosphere that were highly injurious to health and environment.
The Islamabad Capital Territory Administration (ICT Admin) on the request of EPA had imposed section 144 in the capital to ban all sorts of burning of waste, stubble and any other material to curb smog risk, she added.
