description of method of impact of use of plastic bags on environmenr
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Effects of plastic bags on animals. On land plastic bags are consumed by animals, just like in the ocean. Animals eat food wrappers, waste, and plastic bags leading to digestive problems that can cause death. Furthermore, animals can get trapped with bags around their heads causing them to suffocate.
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Solid Waste Management (SWM) is one of the important obligatory functions of any urban local authority. It refers to all activities pertaining to the control, collection, transportation, processing and disposal of solid waste in accordance with the best principles of public health, economics, engineering, conservation, aesthetics and other environmental considerations [1]. According to [2], the fundamental target of SWM is to protect the health of the population, promote environmental quality, develop sustainability and provide support to economic productivity through utilization of waste as a resource. This essential service, however, is not efficiently and properly performed by many cities in developing countries, such as . For instance, city in is grappling with increasing piles of waste, particularly plastic bags, disposal technologies and methodologies, and overflowing dumping sites. We know that one of the most pressing and critical goal for the future of humankind is to ensure steady improvement in the quality of life for this and future generations in a way that sustains the quality of the earth’s environment.
A combination of all of the factors including lack of resources - financial and personnel, institutional weakness, improper selection of technology, transportation systems and disposal options, public apathy towards environmental cleanliness and protection have made this goal unattainable in many of these cities. In this regard therefore, Kenyans have a high stake in the state of their environment for their livelihoods depend on its health. The 2003 state of Kenya’s environment Report [9] indicates that her environment is facing an ecological crisis resulting from among other factors, the problem of plastic bag waste disposal despite the many initiatives and concerted efforts by several stakeholders to improve the quality of Kenya’s environment. Sustainability can only be attained when the economic, social and political pressures that can inhibit or support the capacity of individual communities or the nation to properly care for the environment are identified and attended appropriately [2]. Hence efforts need to be directed towards integrating thinking, action, and systems such as ecological, social, political and economic which are critical in achieving sustainability [3, 6].
Plastic bag waste disposal is one of the most critical problems that threaten the sustainability of the natural resources, life support systems, social harmony, human rights, economic growth and people’s participation in making decisions affecting lives. Plastic bag waste forms the largest proportion of municipal solid waste and this has been the focus of growing interest since the early 1990s and many Local and Regional Authorities (L/RAs) are confronted with a number of environmental, economic and social issues of solid waste in general [7]. Some of these problems include visual pollution, chocked soils, blocked waterways/drains that lead to floods. Plastic bags of various sizes and all colors are found dotting the landscape. They are ingested by livestock endangering their health and even causing death, they choke soils and they are slow bio-degraders. The expansion of plastic production and consumption is having a significant impact, both visibly and invisibly on the socio-physical environment in Kenya. With the rising affluence and public’s eager embrace of western consumerism, there is a staggering demand for plastic products in Kenya generally and Nairobi city in particular.