Oil industry lobbies US to help weaken Kenya’s strong stance on plastic waste

Environmentalists fear changing Kenya's resolve would lead to all of Africa becoming a plastics dumping ground

Major oil companies are lobbying the United States to pressure Kenya to change its world-leading stance against plastic waste, according to environmentalists who fear the continent will be used as a dumping ground.

The request from the American Chemistry Council to the Office of the United States Trade Representative came as the US and Kenya negotiate what would be the first US bilateral trade deal with a country in sub-Saharan Africa.