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Bottle deposit refund system can further help us to reduce plastic waste

A child with a plastic bottle seated at the top of a heap of garbage at Gioto dumpsite. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Talk of ending single-use plastics and addressing plastic waste has become a melody almost every Kenyan is conversant with. The urgency of finding a lasting solution to plastic waste motivated policy approaches to reduce or eliminate them. The most memorable policy instrument was Kenya's ban on single-use plastic bags in 2017.

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