Plastic bag
@Akatheu (387)
Nairobi, Kenya
September 18, 2017 4:10am CST
Things are not the same again in Africa especially in Kenya the government has decided to get rid of plastic bags. You go to a supermarket without a shopping bag and you are given the shopping on your hands. They don't care how much items you have shopped for. Alternatively you buy a shopping bag just outside the shops which is a bit expensive. Suppose one had no extra money for the shopping bag!!! I find this not good at all.
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@resukill22 (25050)
• Las Pinas City, Philippines
18 Sep 17
I think you should bring your own shopping bag,
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@mildredtabitha (16147)
• Nairobi, Kenya
18 Sep 17
Yeah. They did very wrong. They removed plastic bags without replacing.
I remember last week I was buying pads in Tuskys and they wrapping it in a piece of magazine. I refused, since I had my school bag with me.
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@Akatheu (387)
• Nairobi, Kenya
18 Sep 17
I went shopping with my hubby last week just to check in my handbag I had not carried my shopping bag. We were give the items on our hands, just to buy a bag outside the supermarket, within a minute the bag tore off and everything was on the floor!!!!
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@mildredtabitha (16147)
• Nairobi, Kenya
18 Sep 17
@Akatheu I am so sorry about that. Those bags are not of good quality. But they do not have a choice since the government implemented a rule before allowing people to get replacement first. Nowadays it is better to walk with backpack.
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@mildredtabitha (16147)
• Nairobi, Kenya
18 Sep 17
@MALUSE I always carry a backpack when going to school. So that day I wads lucky I had my bag. I carried it in my bag. I did not want them to wrap in magazine since I had a bag :)
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@millynyash (52)
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18 Sep 17
@Akatheu imagine going to mama kiosk for gorogoro of githeri??????????????hehe where do they pack the cooked githeri!??
@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
18 Sep 17
I see that using plastic bags may be punished for some money in Kenya from TV news. Here although the supermarkets will not offer plastic bags for free any more, but you can buy them anyway. I always bring my own cloth bag to go shopping. I want to do something good for the environment.
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@peachpurple (13961)
• Malaysia
18 Sep 17
In our country only saturdays is no plastic day, so we always bring green bag for shopping
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