LEGAL FRAMEWORK ON WASTE MANAGEMENT IN KENYA AND OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES

advocate for the ‘reuse, reduce and recycle’ model 4 POLICIES & TREATIES ACROSS AFRICA ECOWAS Environmental Policy, 2008 Bamako Convention, 1998 The Policy highlights the West African The main goal of the Bamako Convention is to countries commitment to follow other prohibit the importation of all waste into treaties like the Bamako to reduce the Africa. [...] regarding the the transboundary movement, management and processing of hazardous waste EAC Climate Change Policy Framework The Abidjan Convention, 2014 The aim is to guide and support policy makers, key The Convention’s goal is to provide stakeholders and partner states in the implementation framework to prevent, reduce and control of strategies to address climate change, ensuring both pollution o. [...] provides for the regulation of importation, The law has three objectives: to control the manufacture, use and reuse of certain use of plastic bags and other plastic plastics. [...] SOUTH SUDAN The Government of South Sudan banned the importation and use of plastic bags in the country in December 2017. [...] To facilitate this, ALN Kenya has partnered with Flipflopi to champion the legislative agenda at an EAC level through the drafting and introduction of a legislative framework to ban the use and manufacture of specific single-use plastics in the EAC to be presented before the EAC Legislative Assembly for consideration.