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Kenya Introduces Big Penalties for Plastic Bags

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

driven writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @09:06PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @09:06PM (#561129)

    This coworker tells him not to do it and the guy responds with "What are you, some kind of tree hugging communist?"

    I suspect you misunderstood the situation.

    Telling somebody what to do with their private property, or something growing on their private property, is a core behavior of communism and communists.

    If your "conservative" co-worker truly was conservative, he wouldn't have told the other guy to not cut down the trees. Instead, the "conservative" co-worker would have immediately offered to purchase the property and trees in question. Or at the very least, he would have offered to purchase the trees, and would have paid to have the trees safely extracted from this other fellow's property and instead replanted on his own property.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @11:18PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @11:18PM (#561218)

    Holy crap, the insanity that rolls through here... you missed the point in your attempt to maintain environmentalist == communist. *golf clap*

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @12:17AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @12:17AM (#561237)

      The comment you replied to doesn't even mention the word "environmentalist" or any related word in any way.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @07:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @07:12AM (#561370)

      No, only you think that point is being made. The other AC was stating tree-hugger=enviromentalist and guy who tells people what to do==communist.