Gambia: Vendors, Consumers Seek for Substitute to Banned Plastic Bags

Vendors as well as consumers who use plastic bags as containers for the stuff they sell or buy are calling on the authorities to provide a substitute following the announcement of the banning of the use of plastics in the country, effective 1 July, 2015.

A press release issued by the president's office on Monday, 20th April 2015, and read on state television, announced a complete ban on the importation and use of plastic bags in the country. According to the release, "the indiscriminate use of plastic bags in the Gambia poses a serious existentialist threat to the fragile ecosystem of the country and presents an unwarranted environmental eyesore. Plastic bags are also responsible for suffocation deaths of sea and land animals as well as inhibiting soil nutrients."

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