Battle of the Bag- Blog Post 1
Not only is plastic waste effecting the lives of animals around the world, but worst of all our own species, humans. In Nairobi Kenya there's such an insane amount of plastic waste and what they call "flying toilets", that the ground and water has been riddled with disease, effecting the entire community's health. Nobel prize winner Gari Matai explains to us how the community is directly affected by this because of malaria. Obviously from watching the documentary we know that plastic bags do not biodegrade, so when it rains the bags fill up with rainwater. Matai explains to us further that mosquitoes breed in stagnant water, increasing the percentage of mosquitoes that carry malaria. Kenya decided to take action on this issue after much devastation. They were able to pass a law banning thin single use bags and took action immediately. Going from market to market and raiding vendors for their plastic bags and providing them with sizabl...