"£30,000
($40,000) fines and up to four years behind bars are threatened to those
producing, selling or even using single-use plastic bags."
Kenya has introduced a new law designed to cut the use of
single-use plastic bags that are somewhat more punitive than the United
Kingdom's 5p minimum charge – with fines and jail time both
possible. Kenya has joined more than 40 nations worldwide attempting to
drastically reduce the number of bags in circulation, but the east African
country’s approach is by some distance the most aggressive: £30,000 ($40,000)
fines and up to four years behind bars are threatened to those producing,
selling or even using single-use plastic bags.
