{"id":6621,"date":"2019-11-18T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","slug":"were-drowning-in-plastics-is-it-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/18\/were-drowning-in-plastics-is-it-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re drowning in plastics. Is it too late?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I write\nthis, I am covered with dust up to my eyebrows, and each time I cough, a little\ndust escapes from my mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have just come from River Road, where I have spent about 45 minutes looking for a red or green ribbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you haven\u2019t been to River Road lately, the streets that side of Nairobi is akin to a shamba, thanks to the ankle-length dust that characterizes the roads and pavements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had\nhoped to get the ribbon in the two supermarkets near my place of work, but none\nstocked the type that had been specified in my son\u2019s school diary. \u2018Small\nribbons (red or green)\u2019, the note from the teacher had read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew where I had to go to get the elusive ribbon, but I was hesitant to extend my hunt to River Road because I have seen some bad things happen to people down there, the same place where my bag was recently slashed by a thief in the hope that the contents would spill out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/lifestyle\/lifestyle\/We-are-drowning-in-plastics--Is-it-too-late\/1214-5351424-nveqjyz\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation As I write this, I am covered with dust up to my eyebrows, and each time I cough, a little dust escapes from my mouth. I have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6622,"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-6621","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\/6621","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=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}