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Africa Nations Move to Ban Plastic Bags

90% don't make it to dumps, clogging sewers, littering streets

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 2, 2007 6:55 PM CST

(Newser) – With garbage rotting in the streets and being burnt in toxic bonfires, many African countries are looking to ban plastic bags. Kenya produces 48 million every year, and is now trying to follow Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda by outlawing them. In Nairobi’s slums, bags...   Read full story »

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