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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 29 2017, @03:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the costly-takeout dept.

In an effort to reduce plastic bag pollution, Kenya has introduced tough laws that will result in a prison term of up to 4 years or a maximum of $40,000 for any Kenyan producing, selling or even using plastic bags, although initial enforcement will target manufacturers and suppliers.

"The East African nation joins more than 40 other countries that have banned, partly banned or taxed single use plastic bags, including China, France, Rwanda and Italy."

Bags can take 500-1000 years to decompose, in the mean time killing or harming wildlife and entering the human food chain.
What is being done about plastic bag pollution where you live?


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @04:05PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @04:05PM (#560873)

    Nobody tells American billionaires what to do! Say, those noggers look like they need something to do. Let's open a phone factory in Kenya and work them to death just like slaves.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @04:15PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @04:15PM (#560879)

    Basically, you're saying that before American billionaires showed up with their factories,* those people were living under conditions even worse than being worked to death like slaves—otherwise, the factories wouldn't be able to operate there, because nobody would want to be employed by them.

    So... Thanks, American billionaires! Thanks for improving the lives of these people.

    * I doubt many such tycoons are looking to Kenya to put their factories.

    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @04:51PM (8 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @04:51PM (#560915)

      * I doubt many such tycoons are looking to Kenya to put their factories.

      China is getting expensive, chonks want a middle class for some reason, we're going to need to manufacture in Africa sooner or later, to exploit the cheap noggers.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @04:58PM (7 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @04:58PM (#560925)

        Here [soylentnews.org] is a really good discussion of that issue.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:35PM (6 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:35PM (#560958)

          Ah yes, better thank those billionaires for providing the bare minimum opportunities for people in need. They saved a ridiculous amount of money on wages and could easily afford to pay those workers double, but being greedy fucking pigs they paid them as little as they could get away with. Sure it is an improvement, but it could easily have been a massive blessing instead of a barely noticeable blip. The profit margins would have hardly been affected, but yes, lets bend over backwards to thank such greedy fuckers.

          Your ethics are defective, perhaps a brain replacement?

          • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:18PM (5 children)

            by mhajicek (51) on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:18PM (#560987)

            Pay your workers too much in a third world country and people will kill them to try to take their jobs.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:42PM (4 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:42PM (#561004)

              Oh I see, the megacorps are doing them a favor, uh huh riiiiight. You sound like a corporate shill.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:43PM (2 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:43PM (#561056)

                Would it be better if megacorps pulled out of the region, and closed down their factories?

                YOU'RE NOT MAKING SENSE!!!!1111

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @08:59PM (1 child)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @08:59PM (#561118)

                  Actually yes, it probably would have been better for many countries. They would have developed their own factories or alternative economic models instead of being sucked into the highly consumer based western lifestyles. The regions are still suffering from massive poverty and such factories increased the wealth disparity.

                  The method of globalization is not altruistic and corporations should not get laurels for the meager bits of cash that get infused into these poverty stricken areas. My point was that the corps could have easily been the best employers around, but my guess is every bit of savings CEOs extracted through slave wages went right into their yearly bonuses.

                  I'm not a proponent of doing away with private enterprises, but the current system is badly broken.

                  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @11:10PM

                    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @11:10PM (#561213)

                    Could it be that their average IQ is what would be considered "retarded" in the US. Nah....

              • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday August 29 2017, @08:25PM

                by mhajicek (51) on Tuesday August 29 2017, @08:25PM (#561098)

                You sound like you don't know history.

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