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Conservation nightmare as plastic bags creeping back

Goats rummaging through a heap of plastics in Korogocho slums. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Monica Mueni and Jane Waithera walk confidently home from an estate dry cleaner in Eastlands, holding clothes wrapped in plastic bags.

Plastic bags were banned in Kenya about four years, but the two are least bothered and even agreed to be photographed

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