Kenya urged to ban plastic bags

[Eugene]

Kenya urged to ban plastic bags

Kenya has been urged to ban flimsy plastic bags to rid the country of
a growing public health hazard.

A UN-backed study found that two million plastic bags were handed out
each year in Nairobi alone - where only a quarter of daily waste is
collected.

Many bags are so thin they last only one shop, and have to be
discarded.

Backing action, Kenya's Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai said drains and
sewers were being blocked - creating breeding areas for
malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

Discarded bags also choke farm animals and marine wildlife and pollute
the soil, the study into Kenya's solid waste management found.

The bags can take between 20 and 1,000 years to decompose.


BBC News

[Warpy]

1. Plastic bags are Satanic!

They rip if anything canned or bottled is in them, and they do last only one trip, rendering them mostly useless for recycling as trash bags.

The only good thing about Walmart is their plastic bag recycling program.

[CrispyQ]

2. Plastic bags ARE evil!!!

Buy a few canvas bags & keep them in your car! I take my canvas bags with me to every store. I refuse to get more bags at any place I shop.

I read an article where they had autopsied a whale to discover it had starved to death because it's digestive tract was packed with plastic bags & other debris.

What I really can not believe is when someone buys a gallon of milk in a plastic container with a handle & wants it placed in a plastic bag. God forbid anyone would be a little inconvenienced or make a bit of effort to make a positive impact on this planet. "Let someone else do it!" is today's mantra.