The Government has banned the use of plastic bags, with the directive taking effect from 1st of September 2017.
The move is clearly on the right track considering the state our cities are in.
Our cities are littered with plastics that degrade the natural beauty of the streets, nonetheless, the bags cause a menace when forced to drain down the sewers.
Almost every sewer in the country is choking in miles of indigestible materials.
If drastic action to recycle the materials is not taken, plastic trash will outweigh fish in our oceans by 2050.
According to a global study by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an overwhelming 95 percent of plastic packaging is lost to the economy after a single use.
To move from insight to large scale recycling action and even abolition of plastics in the country, it is clear than no one actor can work on this alone. The public, private sector and the civil society have role to curb this peril.