Don't compromise on plastic bags ban

Plastic bag manufacturers should actually be kicked out of East Africa. It would be fool hardy to have Kenya plastic bag manufacturers move to Uganda, produce there and smuggle the same bags to Kenya. We should all operate on harmonized policies especially those related to the environment.

Thursday, September 07, 2017

Editor, RE: "Uganda target Kenya plastic bags firms” (The New Times, September 6).

Plastic bag manufacturers should actually be kicked out of East Africa. It would be fool hardy to have Kenya plastic bag manufacturers move to Uganda, produce there and smuggle the same bags to Kenya. We should all operate on harmonized policies especially those related to the environment.

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