{"id":4567,"date":"2019-08-15T09:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T06:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"burundi-brings-forward-plastic-bag-ban-by-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/15\/burundi-brings-forward-plastic-bag-ban-by-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi Brings Forward Plastic Bag Ban By Six Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By BBC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burundi says from next week\nanyone caught using plastic bags will be punished, bringing forward a deadline\nto phase them out by six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government banned their use\nlast August, allowing an 18-month period for consumers and retailers to finish\ntheir stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Environment Minister\nD\u00e9o-Guide Rurema said he had taken the decision to impose the ban from 22\nAugust as plastic bags were still being used so widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He did not specify what\npunishment those who break the ban will face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a press conference in the main\ncity of Bujumbura on Tuesday, the minister held up a paper bag and said locally\nproduced, environmentally friendly bags should be used instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet locals told BBC Great Lakes\nthat the paper bags were not easy to find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several countries in the region\nhave taken action against plastic bags, including neighbouring Rwanda, which\nbanned them in 2008, Kenya, which prohibited them in 2017, and Tanzania that\nstopped their import in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Nations Environment\nProgramme says 63 countries around the world have banned or taken measures\nagainst the use of plastic bags. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/ea\/Burundi-brings-forward-plastic-bag-ban-by-six-months\/4552908-5235636-f508l2\/index.html\">original\narticle<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/\">the East African<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Burundi says from next week anyone caught using plastic bags will be punished, bringing forward a deadline to phase them out by six months. The government banned their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}