{"id":8294,"date":"2020-02-25T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8294"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","slug":"single-use-plastics-ban-an-opportunity-to-innovate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/25\/single-use-plastics-ban-an-opportunity-to-innovate\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-Use Plastics Ban An Opportunity To Innovate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>June 5\nis World Environment Day. But that is not news. It has been marked yearly since\n1974. The news is that the landmark ban on all single-use plastic in\nconservation areas will take effect on the same date, making it a singularly\nimportant day in Kenya\u2019s calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya\u2019s\nPresident, Uhuru Kenyatta, announced the ban in June last year while speaking\nat the Women Deliver 2019 Conference at the Vancouver Conference Centre in\nCanada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nban on single-use plastic comes just over two years after President Kenyatta\u2019s\ngovernment banned plastic carrier bags and flat bags in August 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Single-use\nplastics are to be disposed of or recycled. There are a wide range of plastic\nmaterials that fall under this category and they are used widely for packaging.\nThey are popular for their convenience. Some of the materials that fall under\nthis category include grocery bags, food packaging materials, bottles, straws,\ncontainers, cups and cutlery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\ndoes this ban mean for you? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/ideas\/Single-use-plastics-ban-an-opportunity-to-innovate\/4259414-5467454-udsak2z\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 5 is World Environment Day. But that is not news. It has been marked yearly since 1974. The news is that the landmark ban on all single-use plastic in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8295,"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-8294","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\/8294","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=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}