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Recycle plastics for cleaner, healthier environment

Plastics are strewn all over Nairobi from the city centre to low income settlements. Apart from being an eyesore, the plastics present health and environmental problems. [PHOTO: FILE / STANDARD]

By GARDY CHACHA

NAIROBI, KENYA: As early as 1997, Kenya’s National Environment Management Authority (Nema) estimated that Nairobi alone produced 1,530 tonnes of solid waste in a single day. “Plastics and other non-biodegradable waste are strewn all over low-income settlements causing great health and environmental concerns,” Nema writes in its official website.

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