Coming soon to California

CaliFFL

Thirty-one people were arrested in Mombasa on Monday for being in possession of plastic bags.

A vehicle ferrying the bags without a permit was also impounded.

Plastic bags were banned in Kenya with effect from August 28, with exceptions given for garbage bin liners and those used for packaging goods in industries.

The individuals were arrested in a crackdown by National Environment Management Authority and Mombasa County Inspectorate Department.

Nema enforcement officer Robert Orina said the team conducted the crackdown in Majengo Market and Tudor.

He said two of those arrested were suppliers of the banned bags.

This is a breakthrough as we have had a successful crackdown. For the last two weeks Nema and the county government have been able to arrest traders [who are still] using the banned plastic bags,” Mr Orina said.

He said plastic carrier bags were a menace in Mombasa and caused pollution.

Some of the impounded plastic bags, he said, came from Uganda.

“We are following leads and tracking the dealers. We are going to work day and night to rid Mombasa and the entire country of plastic bags,” he said.

https://www.nation.co.ke/counties/mombasa/Nema-arrests-31-in-Mombasa-banned-plastic-bags/1954178-4311546-8f8jqz/index.html

Accipiter

Weren’t we told plastic was better for the environment?  You know it saves trees.

CaliFFL

Kenyan police are treating plastic bags like it’s kilos of heroin. I’m sure they have better ways of spending their resources. 

They even pose around the contraband like American cops. 

Accipiter

What is the street value of a kilo of plastic bags in Kenya?

CaliFFL

There’s already a black market, complete with smugglers, dealers, and buyers. Just like any other prohibited item, it’s valuable enough to be worth the risk. 

NN

I went to Mombasa and did not end up doing the Mombasa two----step! 

tennmike

Paper bags are made from a renewable and biodegradable source. The plastic bags end up in streams and rivers that dump the plastic bags into the ocean. I guess they're trying to stop that 'into the ocean' thing. If that's it, then I don't see a problem.

Speaking of California, those eco-idiots out there leave more plastic trash on the beaches than can be picked up when they have a rally to 'save the oceans'. Ecologists, my shiny hiney. They're nothing but entitled little trash spreaders.

earlyagain

It's becoming difficult for me to imagine the hardship of a world without plastic.

Bigslug

This is the "progress" that John Henry Patterson hunted down and killed The Ghost and the Darkness to make way for.  Had he known this was coming, he'd have probably burned down his bridge pilings.

Spk

Plastic bags -- everyone needs an enemy.

Besides, "... the fish love it. It's good for their tummies."

Looks like a gross overreaction to me but then I don't have to live there.

Let's see, over here we have the war on guns, the war on drugs, the war on pollution, the war on plastic bags... What else should we declare war on?

Yeah know, building a Utopia at the cost of one freedom at time -- Sounds expensive and not very utopian!

CaliFFL

Spk said:

Looks like a gross overreaction to me but then I don't have to live there.

Let's see, over here we have the war on guns, the war on drugs, the war on pollution, the war on plastic bags... What else should we declare war on?

Yeah know, building a Utopia at the cost of one freedom at time -- Sounds expensive and not very utopian!

Procreation. None of these "wars" are winnable as long as we have humans breeding. 

The eco-freaks have flat out said they want to kill off half the planet...I'm guessing it is the half that agrees with them. 

rberglof

War on plastic straws.