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Alternatives to plastic bags
TSi
#1 Posted : Tuesday, April 04, 2017 3:18:53 PM
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With the eminent ban of paper bags for packaging are there opportunities one can seize before Kenyans realize it and at least make some cash b4 the field gets flooded?
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#2 Posted : Tuesday, April 04, 2017 7:34:09 PM
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Sisal or Manila gunias. Made on a fashionable way or those makuti baskets.
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#3 Posted : Tuesday, April 04, 2017 8:17:01 PM
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Paper bags or plastic bags??
TSi wrote:
With the eminent ban of paper bags for packaging are there opportunities one can seize before Kenyans realize it and at least make some cash b4 the field gets flooded?

TSi
#4 Posted : Wednesday, April 05, 2017 12:14:43 PM
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Chaka wrote:
Paper bags or plastic bags??
TSi wrote:
With the eminent ban of paper bags for packaging are there opportunities one can seize before Kenyans realize it and at least make some cash b4 the field gets flooded?



chaka sure it is Plastic bags.
Would our supermarkets agree to buy manila paper bags? Like the ones Kfc put their chicken?
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#5 Posted : Wednesday, April 05, 2017 1:22:55 PM
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TSi wrote:
With the eminent ban of paper bags for packaging are there opportunities one can seize before Kenyans realize it and at least make some cash b4 the field gets flooded?

Do a quick flight to Rwanda, see how they are managing and copy-paste
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#6 Posted : Wednesday, April 05, 2017 2:18:04 PM
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TSi wrote:
Chaka wrote:
Paper bags or plastic bags??
TSi wrote:
With the eminent ban of paper bags for packaging are there opportunities one can seize before Kenyans realize it and at least make some cash b4 the field gets flooded?



chaka sure it is Plastic bags.
Would our supermarkets agree to buy manila paper bags? Like the ones Kfc put their chicken?


The supermarket guys are cartels. Whatever alternative will come up it will be supplied by the same cartels.

Think mama mboga, the butcher, the chips cafes, the small shops (sugar e.t.c). That's where the disruption will occur and only the early bird will cash in.
Chaka
#7 Posted : Wednesday, April 05, 2017 4:44:24 PM
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If I remember correctly,when Uchumi was the 'only' supermarket,they used to package purchases in paper bags..
mama mboga may have to resort to newspapers till something better comes up?


FRM2011 wrote:


chaka sure it is Plastic bags.
Would our supermarkets agree to buy manila paper bags? Like the ones Kfc put their chicken?


The supermarket guys are cartels. Whatever alternative will come up it will be supplied by the same cartels.

Think mama mboga, the butcher, the chips cafes, the small shops (sugar e.t.c). That's where the disruption will occur and only the early bird will cash in.[/quote]
2012
#8 Posted : Wednesday, April 05, 2017 10:36:50 PM
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Bigchick wrote:
Sisal or Manila gunias. Made on a fashionable way or those makuti baskets.



I always wonder, what's more damaging to the environment between mass producing manila paper bags and nylon paper bags? Manila is biodegradable but we'll have to fell many trees while nylon we know all about. So what's less damaging to the environment?

BBI will solve it
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#9 Posted : Thursday, April 06, 2017 6:41:38 AM
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2012 wrote:
Bigchick wrote:
Sisal or Manila gunias. Made on a fashionable way or those makuti baskets.



I always wonder, what's more damaging to the environment between mass producing manila paper bags and nylon paper bags? Manila is biodegradable but we'll have to fell many trees while nylon we know all about. So what's less damaging to the environment?


We can regrow trees at a higher rate than we cut them.
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TSi
#10 Posted : Thursday, April 06, 2017 12:06:23 PM
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Impunity wrote:
2012 wrote:
Bigchick wrote:
Sisal or Manila gunias. Made on a fashionable way or those makuti baskets.



I always wonder, what's more damaging to the environment between mass producing manila paper bags and nylon paper bags? Manila is biodegradable but we'll have to fell many trees while nylon we know all about. So what's less damaging to the environment?


We can regrow trees at a higher rate than we cut them.


We can even recycle the newspapers, ma cartons and shredded papers that companies throw away. I don't know why this idea keeps lingering on my mind.
Chaka
#11 Posted : Thursday, April 06, 2017 12:55:14 PM
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Recycling prob being done with the product ending up as TP?

TSi wrote:


We can even recycle the newspapers, ma cartons and shredded papers that companies throw away. I don't know why this idea keeps lingering on my mind.

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#12 Posted : Tuesday, April 11, 2017 2:44:56 PM
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There are many uses of plastic bags. Example Sugar companies pack sugar in plastic bags. Will they now pack in paper? And what will the cost be to manufacturers to change the packaging machines?
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#13 Posted : Tuesday, April 11, 2017 3:12:10 PM
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Opportunities are everywhere, don't limit the imagination:

http://www.angazarwanda.com/
leona
#14 Posted : Tuesday, April 11, 2017 4:13:22 PM
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deadpoet wrote:
Opportunities are everywhere, don't limit the imagination:

http://www.angazarwanda.com/


Good stuffApplause

@2012, Paper is easily recyclable and we can grow more trees(actually a chance for people to start serious tree farming). The main challenge we currently face with plastic bags is lack of proper waste management and recycling ideas/options and of course people littering all over the place especially in rivers and drainage systems!

Time for the sisal market to be revived! :)
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#15 Posted : Sunday, April 16, 2017 10:51:18 PM
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I feel like we already have the solutions, when I was younger Sugar, omo, was packaged in manila and paper boxes, Nakumatt has those cloth reusable shopping bags, cartons were used when you bought many goods at the supermarkets, don't know if it's healthy but meat was wrapped directly on newspaper, kiondos should be cool again, straw buskets,
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#16 Posted : Monday, April 17, 2017 5:27:04 AM
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it takes 1000 years to biodegrade plastic we already have stocks for one millennium. I'm safely keeping any worthy plastic paper for recycling after September.this thing must go
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TSi
#17 Posted : Monday, April 17, 2017 7:24:27 PM
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Like the digital migration of Tv there are those who made money early on, is there opportunity in this manila paper sector?
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#18 Posted : Tuesday, April 18, 2017 11:04:06 AM
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My local supermarket has already voluntarily stopped using plastic bags. If you've purchased a lot they will give you a cardboard box but for smaller shopping they encourage you to buy a reusable bag like the ones Nakumatt sell.
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#19 Posted : Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:33:14 PM
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The environment already gaining with the ban,there is a corner in our estate where the wind blows plastic bags it's amazingly clean,also today at Naivas they run out of packaging kabisa even cartons and the bags they sell,they seem to not have thought outvthe ban
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#20 Posted : Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:56:16 PM
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kayhara wrote:
The environment already gaining with the ban,there is a corner in our estate where the wind blows plastic bags it's amazingly clean,also today at Naivas they run out of packaging kabisa even cartons and the bags they sell,they seem to not have thought outvthe ban



Great that the eyesore that was plastic bags is dissapearing.
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