Factories shut down as workers protest plastic ban
Joyce Aliviza, a trader at Top Market in Nakuru Town in Kenya, packages omena (sardines)in a khaki paper bag on August, 29, 2017 after the plastic bags ban came into effect. PHOTO | AYUB MUIYURO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Employees of plastic bag manufacturers on Tuesday took to the streets to protest the closure of their factories, as the country’s environmental watchdog welcomed Kenyans’ support following the ban on plastics.
The workers complained that they had been rendered jobless without proper procedures being followed about the ban and appealed to the government to intervene.
