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    Kenya bans plastic bags, up to $40,000 fines for violators

    Chronicle EditorBy Chronicle EditorAugust 28, 2017No Comments2 Mins Read
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    A ban on plastic bags came into force Monday in Kenya and those found in violation of the ban could be given a maximum fine of 40,000 dollars or risk imprisonment of up to four years.

    The East African nation joins more than 40 other countries that have banned, partly banned or taxed single use plastic bags, including China, France, Rwanda, and Italy.

    Many bags drift into the ocean, strangling turtles, suffocating seabirds and filling the stomachs of dolphins and whales with waste until they die of starvation.

    “If we continue like this, by 2050, we will have more plastic in the ocean than fish,” said Habib El-Habr, an expert on marine litter working with the UN Environment Programme in Kenya.

    Plastic bags, which El-Habr says take between 500 to 1,000 years to break down, also enter the human food chain through fish and other animals.

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    In Nairobi’s slaughterhouses, some cows destined for human consumption had 20 bags removed from their stomachs.

    “This is something we didn’t get ten years ago but now its almost on a daily basis,” said county vet Mbuthi Kinyanjui as he watched men in bloodied white uniforms scoop sodden plastic bags from the stomachs of cow carcasses.

    Kenya’s law allows police to go after anyone even carrying a plastic bag.

    Judy Wakhungu, Kenya’s environment minister, said enforcement would initially be directed at manufacturers and suppliers.

    “Ordinary wananchi will not be harmed,” she told Reuters, using a Kiswahili word for “common man”.

    It took Kenya three attempts over ten years to finally pass the ban, and not everyone is a fan.

    Samuel Matonda, spokesman for the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, said it would cost 60,000 jobs and force 176 manufacturers to close.

    Kenya is a major exporter of plastic bags to the region.

    “The knock-on effects will be very severe,” Matonda said.

    “It will even affect the women who sell vegetables in the market, how will their customers carry their shopping home?”

    Big Kenyan supermarket chains like France’s Carrefour and Nakumatt have already started offering customers cloth bags as alternatives.

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