The National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) has announced a nationwide ban on non-woven polypropylene bags effective March 31 this year.
This comes roughly two years after the 2017 ban on the use and manufacture of plastic carrier bags, a move that was aimed at clearing the environment of the same.
Consequently, this has given room for the manufacture and sale of reusable polypropylene bags for commercial and domestic use.
But the authority now says that it has detected the introduction of low gauge and poor quality non-woven bags that replaced polythene carriers.
The authority says the bags in the market are equally a threat to the environment.
In a statement signed by the Director General, the authority says that continued production of the low gauge bags is exposing the nation to disposal challenges.
This, it adds, might lead to a dirtier environment in the future, in a country yet to fully adapt to proper disposal habits.
"Due to the rising need of non-woven bags in the market, it has been noted that manufacturers are producing very low gauge, poor quality non-woven bags which cannot be used multiple times but are disposed of after single use.
The single usage of these bags will eventually lead to heavy environmental consequences due to poor disposal practices currently being experienced in the country coupled with the lack of requisite infrastructure to sustainably manage these bags," reads the statement in part.