A plastic paper bag dumpsite in Kenya.Players in the product industry are already lamenting over it's ban dated for implementation beginning Monday.[Photo/Kenya climate innovation center]
The heat of plastic paper ban scheduled to fully take effect Monday is already being felt nationally with a section of people and firms highly dependent on the product already feeling the pinch.
Among those set to directly be harmed by the ban are factories and small traders who depend on it for packaging of their product and sale.
World Plastic Company, a Limuru based paper factory is unaware of it's next move following the ban.
According to the company's Managing Director Peter Gachungu during a briefing with an NTV reporter Friday,the government is to blame as it has not proposed any remedies to the paper industry that can keep the industry alive even after the ban.
''The government has banned our most relied on product but is yet to advise us on what is to be done next on how to keep our businesses afloat,'' said Gachugu.
This follows a recent failed petition filed by the paper manufacturers to the high court to have the ban postponed.
While giving his verdict Friday,Judge Bernard Mweresa Eboso ruled in favor of the government stressing on the need for the nation to fight the non decomposing product judging by its bad environmental effect.
''Suspending the ban would mean that the offensive plastic bags continue suffocating the environment to the detriment of the Kenyan population while serving the commercial interests of a section of plastic bag dealers,'' he is quoted by Capital News
Failure to comply with the law will attract a fine ranging between 2 and 4 million shillings.