Banning Plastics Not Solution

[Omollo]

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Kenya is not a country where you can ban anything and go to sleep sure that the thing is, well, banned.

Kenya has banned very very many things including cattle rustling, Al Shabaab, Smuggling of Charcoal and illicit registration of motor vehicles. None has worked.

Without going into details,I want to say Moody Awori's daughter - Judy Wakhungu - should have instead placed a value on each and every plastic bag, water bottle etc. Those bags would disappear like a billion shillings in William Ruto's office.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

Kenya is not a country where you can ban anything and go to sleep sure that the thing is, well, banned.

Kenya has banned very very many things including cattle rustling, Al Shabaab, Smuggling of Charcoal and illicit registration of motor vehicles. None has worked.

Without going into details,I want to say Moody Awori's daughter - Judy Wakhungu - should have instead placed a value on each and every plastic bag, water bottle etc. Those bags would disappear like a billion shillings in William Ruto's office.

That's a good one I will add to my repertoire..  That said, your suggestion does not seem far fetched.  Sweden might be in the market to buy all their trash.

Sweden is so good at recycling that, for several years, it has imported rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. Less than 1 per cent of Swedish household waste was sent to landfill last year or any year since 2011.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/sweden-s-recycling-is-so-revolutionary-the-country-has-run-out-of-rubbish-a7462976.html

I realize asking that we copy them is too ambitious.

[MOON Ki]

Again?   There were some sort of bans in 2007 and 2011, but I don't thick anyone ever noticed.  It's a bit like "free education": every post-independence president has declared primary education free yet primary-school kids still have to pay all sorts of fees or go home.

Anyways ... before worrying about plastic bags, the country should first focus on cleanliness in its towns and cities, which are where these bags get used the most.   Walk around any such place in Kenya, and you will find huge mounds  of festering filth, raw sewage being dumped all over the place, etc.   A transfer of garbage from plastic to paper won't make much of a difference.

Also, my guess is that recycling plastic is not such such a huge issue in Kenya, given that many people already "recycle" through use.   

[Georgesoros]

Basic public health standards are a luxury in Kenya.
Just visit the market on Koinange st!!

Again?   There were some sort of bans in 2007 and 2011, but I don't thick anyone ever noticed.  It's a bit like "free education": every post-independence president has declared primary education free yet primary-school kids still have to pay all sorts of fees or go home.

Anyways ... before worrying about plastic bags, the country should first focus on cleanliness in its towns and cities, which are where these bags get used the most.   Walk around any such place in Kenya, and you will find huge mounds  of festering filth, raw sewage being dumped all over the place, etc.   A transfer of garbage from plastic to paper won't make much of a difference.

Also, my guess is that recycling plastic is not such such a huge issue in Kenya, given that many people already "recycle" through use.