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The beef with plastics on your dinner tables

By Mactilda Mbenywe | 3yrs ago

Cows feed on garbage.

Some livestock still had plastics in their gut after the ban on plastics took effect in the country in August 28, 2017, a study by the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) shows.

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