Ban on plastic bags starts amid unpreparedness

Fatuma Museveni, a mother of six, displays bags made of plastic bags at Goito dumpsite in Nakuru during an interview. She said the ban will greatly affect her family as they depend on collecting and selling plastic bags to recycling companies. [Joseph Kipsang, Standard]

The ban on plastic bags, which takes effect today, has caught most traders off-guard despite a six-month notice by the Government.

A spot check by The Standard showed that most small-scale traders in Nairobi’s Muthurwa market had not bought alternative packaging materials for their goods.