Article 3NKJC Eight months on, is the world's most drastic plastic bag ban working?

Eight months on, is the world's most drastic plastic bag ban working?

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Jonathan Watts in Nairobi
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Kenya's ban comes with the world's stiffest fines and some businesses are struggling to find affordable alternatives, but in Nairobi's shanty towns the clean-up is changing lives

Waterways are clearer, the food chain is less contaminated with plastic - and there are fewer "flying toilets".

A year after Kenya announced the world's toughest ban on plastic bags, and eight months after it was introduced, the authorities are claiming victory - so much so that other east African nations Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan are considering following suit.

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