Kenya has announced it will ban single-use plastic starting next June. But coastal communities in Kenya want the government to speed up the ban. They say plastic containers, bottles, cutlery and other junk are polluting the ocean, and endangering their livelihoods. The BBC’s Emmanuel Igunza sent this report from the Kenyan coast.
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