Of the 6,300 million tonnes of plastic waste generated, only nine percent has been recycled and 12 percent incinerated, while 79 percent accumulates in landfills.
THE STANDARD By
Josephine Wawira |
April 4th 2021 at 18:08:47 GMT +0300
The year is 2016, outside a busy supermarket in Nairobi. Shoppers flow in and out carrying their groceries and other goods with plastic carrier bags. That was the order of the day then and plastic pollution had a devastating effect on the environment. A year later in 2017, the government banned production, sale and use of plastics carrier bags. The ban, considered to be one of the sternest in the world, now has a success rate of approximately 80 per cent.
Fast forward to 2021. We have made tremendous strides in the fight against plastic pollution, with a ban on specific single-use plastics in all protected areas taking effect from June 2020. There are also ongoing and ambitious plastics initiatives such as the Kenya Plastic Action Plan and the development of the Kenya Extended Producer Responsibility Organisation (Kepro). Kepro, once established, will ensure plastics are collected, sorted and recycled afte
Mumbai: Paper stocks outshone in a choppy market on Tuesday following the government’s draft regulation under which there can be a ban on single-use plastic for candy and ice cream sticks as well as film wraps around sweet boxes and cigarette packets.
Astron Paper & Board Mill, West Coast Paper Mills, Tamil Nadu Newsprint, Star Paper Mills, Orient Paper and Industries and Emami Paper ended up 4-20 per cent. Malu Paper Mills gained 5.2 per cent and Seshasayee Paper & Boards gained 3.6 per cent.
Analysts said the surge in these stocks over the last few days is on the back of investors shuffling across sectors that had not participated in the record-setting rally in the past year.
According to Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko, the Russian government is working on a new law that will ban the use of non-recyclable plastic goods, including disposable plastic tableware. We must ban the use and circulation of non-recyclable materials, such as, for example, colored plastic, hard-to-recover materials such as cocktail straws, disposable tableware, and so on. This is what we need to work on, and this is what we have in the practical work of the government, Abramchenko said at the Clean Country forum.
By 2030, Russia needs to achieve the extraction of 50 percent of secondary material resources from the entire mass of waste, which will halve both waste disposal and the use of primary resources.