The Nakuru County Assembly will soon table a motion seeking to have an order barring all supermarkets from operating if they do not provide a garbage can outside their premises.
The motion will also seek to have supermarkets provide their customers with reusable bags instead of the normal plastic bags that are issued to them after shopping.
Nakuru County Speaker Susan Kihika said they will write to the director of Environment Muriithi Kiongozi seeking to have the enforcement of the plastic bag ban that was issued in the country in 2006.
“Plastic bags have become a menace in the county and it is important we regulate the way they are distributed in the area. In the motion, we also seek to have the recycling options. This will be instrumental in helping control even clogged drainages in the county,” she said.
She was speaking at her offices at the Nakuru County Assembly after meeting with the Chairman of Street Nakuru CBO James Wakibia.
Wakibia had gone to the assembly to seek a follow-up of a petition seeking to have plastic bags banned in the counties through his #ISupportBanPlasticKE campaign.
The petition was presented to the County Assembly clerk Joseph Malinda on the first week of December 2015.
“Kisii, Meru and Nairobi have started discussing the possibilities of banning plastics in their counties and we feel that Nakuru should also follow cue,” Wakibia said.