Kenya becomes latest African nation to ban plastic bags

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/kenya-becomes-latest-african-nation-to-ban-plastic-bags/2017/03/15/0eda564e-0985-11e7-bd19-fd3afa0f7e2a_story.html?utm_term=.1d0d7e63b13f

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya has become the latest African nation to ban the manufacture and import of all plastic bags used for commercial and household packaging.

Environment Minister Judi W. Wakhungu gave the order published in a gazette notice dated Feb. 28 and released to the public Wednesday. The new measures will take effect six months from the date of the notice.

Thin plastic shopping bags litter the streets of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. They have created towering piles at dump sites.

Cameroon, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mauritania and Malawi are among the countries that have adopted or announced such bans.

cods wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2017 at 9:02am:


It is. It's Made my Day. No more river, lake, pond, and sea-creatures choking on plastic bags.

So, okay, it means extra forests being cut down to make the paper shopping bags, but you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.


cods wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2017 at 9:02am:


Very profitably, codsey.

Where there's a demand (South East Asia) - there's always a supply.

For as long as there's no 'Shoot on sight' policy, the trade will continue to the detriment of those poor animals.

And then we have the shark-fin industry just off our own coast-line, with the live sharks then being pushed back into the sea.

Where's our government regarding this cruelest of practices? Nowhere to be seen, the hottest item on the agenda being the sanctity of sewer-sex between homosexual males.