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A trader arranges his cloth bags for display at Kibuye market in Kisumu on August 27, 2017. It’s official: Plastics ban in Tanzania from June 1. PHOTO | ONDARI OGEGA | NMG

By  Elsie Eyakuze

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I went shopping the other day and forgot my cloth bag, because there hasn’t been a need to remember it for years.

Then I get to the counter and the new thicker plastic bags (very reusable) cost me more than the usual branded ones and I remembered: Tanzania is finally enforcing a law/regulation/whatever that we had discussed over a decade ago.

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