Eight months on, is Kenya's plastic bag ban working?

The ban comes with the world's stiffest fines and some businesses are struggling to find affordable alternatives, but in Nairobi's shanty towns the clean-up is changing livesWaterways are clearer, the food chain is less contaminated with plastic - and there are fewer "flying toilets".A year after Kenya announced the world's toughest ban on plastic bags, and eight months after it was introduce, the authorities are claiming victory - so much so that other east African nations Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan are considering following suit. Continue reading...