{"id":4944,"date":"2019-08-29T08:35:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T05:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"toxic-waste-disposal-war-nets-9-factories-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/29\/toxic-waste-disposal-war-nets-9-factories-shut\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Waste Disposal War Nets 9, Factories Shut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By SARAH NANJALA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nine people\nhave been arrested and four factories shut down indefinitely in Nairobi for\nfailing to comply with waste disposal regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National\nEnvironment Management Authority (Nema) Tuesday morning cracked down on\nfacilities disposing of their waste without pre-treating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HARMFUL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The companies\nshut down are milk producer Daima, Sameer Agriculture and Livestock Ltd,\nChloride Exide Kenya Ltd, Synresins Ltd and Ennsvalley Bakery Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking during\nthe crackdown, Nema Acting Director-General Mamo B. Memo said: \u201cWe will\ncontinue with this exercise to ensure that our rivers are clean and that the\nfacilities responsible for harmful discharge are shut down. The standards are\nvery clear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among those\narrested yesterday, were Daima Operations Manager Kenneth Kareithi, Chloride\nExide General Manager Karanja Njoroge, Ennsvalley Bakery Quality Assurance\nManager Sylvia Ndung\u2019u, Synresins Chief Executive Mira Shah and Synresins\nProduction Manager Michael Mungai. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Toxic-waste-disposal-war-nets-9--factories-shut\/1056-5251294-ruqa9o\/index.html\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SARAH NANJALA Nine people have been arrested and four factories shut down indefinitely in Nairobi for failing to comply with waste disposal regulations. The National Environment Management Authority (Nema)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4945,"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-4944","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\/4944","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=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}