¡Africa NO es un basurero!

¡Firma las peticiones!

Currently, the US, through a US-Kenya Trade Deal, is attempting to negotiate for U.S. plastic waste to be exported to Kenya. The idea that there is a need for a recycling market in Kenya, as a hub for Africa. The American Chemistry Council members including Shell, Exxon, have been pushing the U.S. negotiators to make Kenya loosen her strict plastic ban since 2017.

Kenya has already made significant progress on commitments to eliminate most plastics from the economy. However, if this trade deal goes through, and if the parties allow for U.S. plastics to be dumped in Kenya, this will be a beginning of a calamity not just in Kenya but across Africa. We need to demand for the negotiations to respect the Kenyan people, and to ensure all protocols are met for mutual inclusivity, as well as respect for the environment.

On the inauguration of the Biden-Harris administration on the 20th of January, 2021 we must demand that the Kenya - U.S. trade deal be overturned. We must press for the new U.S. administration to adhere to our demand that Africa Is NOT a Dumpster.

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KEEP YOUR TRASH! — Youth4Nature Plastics are the newest, most persistent mode of modern-day slavery, or should we call it rightly, “Neocolonialism”? Plastic pollution is as much a menace as the petroleum sources that see it to life. Since the discovery of fossil fuels and the extraction of oil to power global economies, human cons www.youth4nature.org⁠

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The Plastic Industry Is Lobbying to Re-Pollute Africa A plastic industry lobbying group wants to reverse Kenya's strict plastic bans, and open Africa up to more U.S. plastic trash. www.greenmatters.com⁠

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5 influential voices spoke up for Kenya’s Plastic Ban – and you should too! - Greenpeace Africa Several of the world’s most influential voices took to social media when the news broke, expressing disgust at this attack on Africa’s plastic-free progress. Here’s what they had to say www.greenpeace.org⁠

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Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic. (Published 2020) Faced with plunging profits and a climate crisis that threatens fossil fuels, the industry is demanding a trade deal that weakens Kenya’s rules on plastics and on imports of American trash. www.nytimes.com⁠

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