{"id":6276,"date":"2019-10-31T09:05:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T06:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","slug":"kenya-pollution-president-kenyatta-vows-plastic-ban-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/31\/kenya-pollution-president-kenyatta-vows-plastic-ban-by-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Pollution: President Kenyatta Vows Plastic Ban By 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By\nNicolas Haque<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two years ago, Kenya banned plastic carrier bags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But with pollution getting worse, President Uhuru Kenyatta says\nsingle-use plastic will be banned altogether by June 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With new arrivals comes more waste and the landfill is expanding faster than the city itself\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/10\/kenya-pollution-president-kenyatta-vows-plastic-ban-2020-191029101907206.html\">watch more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nicolas Haque Two years ago, Kenya banned plastic carrier bags. But with pollution getting worse, President Uhuru Kenyatta says single-use plastic will be banned altogether by June 2020. With&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6278,"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-6276","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\/6276","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=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}