2050 there will be more plastic in the world’s oceans than fish - a concern for the industry.

Serious concern for the Kenya to challenge the usage of plastic. In Kenya, plastic bags were banned.

The rapid growth of the use and disposal of plastic materials has proved to be a challenge for solid waste management systems with impacts on our environment and ocean.

Kenya is now the ninth African country that has banned the use of plastic bags in stores and households.

It is reported by the Associated Press, the banned was also begin introduced in Cameroon, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mauritania and Malawi. In many industrialised countries, the use of plastic bags was banned even earlier.

According to the United Nations Environment Program, only in Kenya, which introduces a ban on the use of plastic in households from September 15, 2017, 100 million such packages are issued in stores every year, which subsequently become one of the important pollutants of nature.

Total in the world ocean, according to the UN, annually falls to 8 million tons of polyethylene products, which lead to environmental pollution and the mass death of fish, birds and mammals.

While maintaining the current rate of environmental pollution with plastic bags, according to the UN, in 2050 there will be more plastic in the world’s oceans than fish.

The recycling and the circular economy have been touted as potential solutions, upward of half of the plastic waste intended for recycling has been exported to hundreds of countries around the world. China, which has imported a cumulative 45% of plastic waste since 1992, recently implemented a new policy banning the importation of most plastic waste, begging the question of where the plastic waste will go now.

Sending plastic to China on a container ship is no longer an option for kenya. The East African plastic manufacturers has step-up and now is to recycling after China has imposed the ban.