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Why Bhutan’s plastic ban keeps failing

ཟླ་༦ 11, 2025 3 mins read
Why Bhutan’s plastic ban keeps failing

Decades of plastic ban in the country has failed to curb plastic use, not for lack of effort but due to regulatory gaps and insufficient data-driven strategies, stakeholders warned at a policy consultation yesterday.

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