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A ban on plastic carrier bags has come into force in Kenya, which means that from Monday anyone found selling, manufacturing or carrying them could face fines of up to $38,000 or prison sentences of up to four years.<\/p>\n

The government says the ban will help protect the environment.<\/p>\n

But manufacturers of the bags have argued that 80,000 jobs could be lost.<\/p>\n

A court on Friday rejected a challenge to the ban. Kenyans are estimated to use 24 million bags a month.<\/p>\n

A number of other African countries have outlawed plastic carrier bags, including South Africa, Rwanda and Eritrea.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/span><\/figure>\n

This is the third attempt in the past 10 years to ban plastic bags in Kenya.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s Anne Soy in Nairobi says that so far many Kenyans appear to support the ban.<\/p>\n

But there is also some uncertainty about how consumers will adjust to life without polythene bags, which are usually given free-of-charge at retail outlets.<\/p>\n

Travellers coming into Kenya with duty-free plastic shop bags will be required to leave them at the airport under the new rules, the National Environmental and Management Authority has said.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/span><\/figure>\n

The government gave a six-month window for adjustment which expired on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Manufacturers who use polythene to wrap products are exempted from the ban.<\/p>\n

Most traders have been caught off-guard despite the phased introduction of the ban,\u00a0The Standard reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A spot check carried out by the newspaper revealed that most small-scale traders in Nairobi’s Muthurwa market had not obtained alternative packaging materials.<\/p>\n

In its ruling last week the High Court dismissed a case filed by two plastic bags importers urging it to drop the ban. The court ruled that environmental concerns were more important than commercial interests.<\/p>\n

Research in Europe has shown that a paper bag must be used three times to compensate for the larger amount of carbon used in manufacturing and transporting it.<\/p>\n

Likewise a plastic “bag for life” must be used four times, and a cotton bag must be used 131 times.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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