Biden should slam brakes on US plastic bags' plan

Last week, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) acknowledged Kenya’s “stewardship” in the continental fight against plastic pollution; but if the past few months are anything to go by, its notoriously stringent anti-plastic laws may not have as firm a grip when it comes to corporate interference in domestic policy.

Only a few months have passed since the Kenyan government’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations with the United States (US) came under international scrutiny. In August, the Greenpeace investigative journalism unit-Unearthed discovered that the American Chemistry Council (ACC) lobbied the US State Representative to demand an immediate suspension of its single-use plastic bans.