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Kenya has banned the use of plastic bags, moreover not only in stores, but also in the household, and thus became the ninth African country with similar environmental concerns about the environment, following Cameroon, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi and Mauritania.
Many industrialized countries of the world even earlier abandoned the use of plastic containers of this kind. And this important steps in the struggle for the purity and preservation of the world, in which we live with. Suffice it to say that in Kenya alone annually issued and sold more than one hundred million plastic layouts, most of which ultimately end up in the ocean.
According to the UN Environmental Program, annually into the oceans about eight million tons of various plastic products a considerable part of which are plastic bags. All this leads to a global environmental disaster. According to the UN, if the rate of environmental pollution with plastic continues, then it in the oceans by 2050 will be more than fish.
They are even more concerned about this. independent environmental scientists. According to their research, part plastic is eaten by the same fish and other marine animals, and organics do not decompose in the digestive system of the inhabitants oceans returning to our table with seafood. It turns out a vicious circle – a person eats what litter, killing so most not only the animal world, but also himself.
Plastic Fish
