'Go Green and Go Thirsty': Guinea’s Plastic Ban Clashes with Need for Safe Water
Authorities reversed the ban after public anger, as 3.7 million people in Guinea live on less than $4.20 a day, the World Bank said.
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Guinea: 'Go Green and Go Thirsty' - Guinea's Plastic Ban Clashes With Need for Safe Water
Plastic water sachets are an essential way to provide people in Guinea with safe and affordable drinking water. But their use clashes with the government's objective of outlawing single-use plastics. Until a solution can be found, authorities have been forced to lift a ban, less than three weeks after implementing it.
'Go green and go thirsty': Guinea’s plastic ban clashes with need for safe water
Plastic water sachets are an essential way to provide people in Guinea with safe and affordable drinking water. But their use clashes with the government’s objective of outlawing single-use plastics. Until a solution can be found, authorities have been forced to lift a ban, less than three weeks after implementing it.
Guinea suspends the ban on plastic water bags for six months: the government seeks less polluting alternatives, but millions of consumers depend on this economic solution to drink drinking water. The article Guinea, banned plastic water bags: six months to find alternatives comes from Focus On Africa.
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