NEMA officials display some of the banned plastic bags recovered from the arrested persons during a raid at Kyumbi in Athi River, Machakos County on April 3, 2025.Despite a formal single-use plastic ban in the country, the problem won’t go away, with a new report showing Nairobi leading the daily producer of plastic garbage.
This as United Nations Environment Programme says the negotiation for a joint international instrument for dealing with plastic waste is continuing a pace, with a key summit slated for early August in Korea. The negotiation was commissioned in Kenya in 2022.
World Vision says that Kenya generates 22,000 tonnes of waste daily, and 20 per cent of this is plastic. The capital is the leading contributor in this, producing a third of all unrecyclable garbage.
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