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Firms ponder use of costly aluminium as plastic ban looms
Hope Mwanyuma (centre), Unep Young Environmental Leader winner and two of her university colleagues, pick out polythene bags from a dump site in Kenya. PHOTO | IVAN LIEMAN | AFP
As the deadline for use of nylon packaging materials looms, and with the government saying the decision to ban the environmentally hazardous material would not be reversed, it is time for shoppers, retailers, and plastic paper manufactures to look for alternatives.
Use of aluminium foil could be among the next options, the high price notwithstanding, as it stops moisture from entering packaged goods.
