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KENYA BANS production, use or sale of plastic bags with effect from Monday, in a bid to reduce plastic pollution.
Kenya has now placed a total ban on producing, selling or using plastic bags aimed mainly at plastic bag manufacturers and sellers initially.
Kenyans found in breach of these new laws risk imprisonment of up to four years or fines of US$40,000 (£31,000) with effect from Monday, in a bid to reduce plastic pollution.
At least 40 other countries worldwide which include Italy, Rwanda China and France, have banned or partly banned or introduced tax on single one time or non reusable plastic bags.
The use of plastic bags is a global concern as most plastic bags drift into the ocean, choke dolphins, whales, turtles and suffocate seabirds to death with strong warnings going out that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the sea and they take on average 500 to 1,000 years to break down.
Kenya has realised that many cattle slaughtered, for human consumption hold on average 20 plastic bags in their stomachs and plastics are in every way in the human food chain.
Kenyan police will be able to go arrest anyone for carrying a plastic bags as the war against plastic bags is pushed out to the people. More news to follow, By Sibusiso Ngwenya