Pran launches environment dev fund

TEL Plastic, a brand of Pran-RFL Group, has created a fund for the development of the environment and announced that it would donate to it Tk 2 from the sale of each of its 80 types of plastic products.

The fund will be used to create awareness among people about environment conservation, prevention pollution and launch tree plantation campaigns, said the group.

Habibun Nahar, deputy minister for environment, forest and climate change, inaugurated "TEL Plastic Environmental Development Fund" yesterday.

She urged others to follow suit, saying environment conservation was at the top of the government's priority list.

"RFL Group initiated plastic recycling since 2012. Currently we recycle 30,000 tonnes of plastic every year. Around 27,000 raw materials are produced from those," said RN Paul, managing director of RFL Group.