An acute shortage of packaging materials was Tuesday looming large over retailers after producers of plastic bags suspended operations, pending clarity on the ban on plastic bags that came into force on Monday.
The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) said that while the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) had allowed the manufacture, importation and use of plastic bags for primary industrial packaging and garbage collection, producers of the bags had been forced to suspend operations because of the “complexities in obtaining clearance,” from Nema.
