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Rank: Member Joined: 12/27/2015 Posts: 130
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With the eminent ban of paper bags for packaging are there opportunities one can seize before Kenyans realize it and at least make some cash b4 the field gets flooded?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/8/2013 Posts: 4,068 Location: At Large.
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Sisal or Manila gunias. Made on a fashionable way or those makuti baskets. Love is beautiful and so are those who share it.With Love, Marriage is an amazing event in ones life time, the foundation of joy, happiness and success.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/16/2007 Posts: 2,114
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Paper bags or plastic bags?? TSi wrote:With the eminent ban of paper bags for packaging are there opportunities one can seize before Kenyans realize it and at least make some cash b4 the field gets flooded?
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Rank: Member Joined: 12/27/2015 Posts: 130
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Chaka wrote:Paper bags or plastic bags?? TSi wrote:With the eminent ban of paper bags for packaging are there opportunities one can seize before Kenyans realize it and at least make some cash b4 the field gets flooded? chaka sure it is Plastic bags. Would our supermarkets agree to buy manila paper bags? Like the ones Kfc put their chicken?
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/22/2015 Posts: 682
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TSi wrote:With the eminent ban of paper bags for packaging are there opportunities one can seize before Kenyans realize it and at least make some cash b4 the field gets flooded? Do a quick flight to Rwanda, see how they are managing and copy-paste
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/5/2010 Posts: 2,459
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TSi wrote:Chaka wrote:Paper bags or plastic bags?? TSi wrote:With the eminent ban of paper bags for packaging are there opportunities one can seize before Kenyans realize it and at least make some cash b4 the field gets flooded? chaka sure it is Plastic bags. Would our supermarkets agree to buy manila paper bags? Like the ones Kfc put their chicken? The supermarket guys are cartels. Whatever alternative will come up it will be supplied by the same cartels. Think mama mboga, the butcher, the chips cafes, the small shops (sugar e.t.c). That's where the disruption will occur and only the early bird will cash in.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/16/2007 Posts: 2,114
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If I remember correctly,when Uchumi was the 'only' supermarket,they used to package purchases in paper bags.. mama mboga may have to resort to newspapers till something better comes up? FRM2011 wrote:
chaka sure it is Plastic bags. Would our supermarkets agree to buy manila paper bags? Like the ones Kfc put their chicken?
The supermarket guys are cartels. Whatever alternative will come up it will be supplied by the same cartels. Think mama mboga, the butcher, the chips cafes, the small shops (sugar e.t.c). That's where the disruption will occur and only the early bird will cash in.[/quote]
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/9/2009 Posts: 6,592 Location: Nairobi
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Bigchick wrote:Sisal or Manila gunias. Made on a fashionable way or those makuti baskets. I always wonder, what's more damaging to the environment between mass producing manila paper bags and nylon paper bags? Manila is biodegradable but we'll have to fell many trees while nylon we know all about. So what's less damaging to the environment? BBI will solve it :)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,328 Location: Masada
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2012 wrote:Bigchick wrote:Sisal or Manila gunias. Made on a fashionable way or those makuti baskets. I always wonder, what's more damaging to the environment between mass producing manila paper bags and nylon paper bags? Manila is biodegradable but we'll have to fell many trees while nylon we know all about. So what's less damaging to the environment? We can regrow trees at a higher rate than we cut them. Portfolio: Sold You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.
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Rank: Member Joined: 12/27/2015 Posts: 130
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Impunity wrote:2012 wrote:Bigchick wrote:Sisal or Manila gunias. Made on a fashionable way or those makuti baskets. I always wonder, what's more damaging to the environment between mass producing manila paper bags and nylon paper bags? Manila is biodegradable but we'll have to fell many trees while nylon we know all about. So what's less damaging to the environment? We can regrow trees at a higher rate than we cut them. We can even recycle the newspapers, ma cartons and shredded papers that companies throw away. I don't know why this idea keeps lingering on my mind.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/16/2007 Posts: 2,114
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Recycling prob being done with the product ending up as TP? TSi wrote:
We can even recycle the newspapers, ma cartons and shredded papers that companies throw away. I don't know why this idea keeps lingering on my mind.
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 12/16/2009 Posts: 33
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There are many uses of plastic bags. Example Sugar companies pack sugar in plastic bags. Will they now pack in paper? And what will the cost be to manufacturers to change the packaging machines?
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/27/2006 Posts: 503
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Opportunities are everywhere, don't limit the imagination: http://www.angazarwanda.com/
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Rank: Elder Joined: 8/1/2008 Posts: 1,432 Location: Marsabit
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Good stuff @2012, Paper is easily recyclable and we can grow more trees(actually a chance for people to start serious tree farming). The main challenge we currently face with plastic bags is lack of proper waste management and recycling ideas/options and of course people littering all over the place especially in rivers and drainage systems! Time for the sisal market to be revived! :) Nevermind what haters say, ignore them til they fade away - Just live your life
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 5/5/2011 Posts: 1,059
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I feel like we already have the solutions, when I was younger Sugar, omo, was packaged in manila and paper boxes, Nakumatt has those cloth reusable shopping bags, cartons were used when you bought many goods at the supermarkets, don't know if it's healthy but meat was wrapped directly on newspaper, kiondos should be cool again, straw buskets, To Each His Own
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/19/2010 Posts: 3,504 Location: Uganda
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it takes 1000 years to biodegrade plastic we already have stocks for one millennium. I'm safely keeping any worthy plastic paper for recycling after September.this thing must go punda amecheka
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Rank: Member Joined: 12/27/2015 Posts: 130
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Like the digital migration of Tv there are those who made money early on, is there opportunity in this manila paper sector?
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/2/2010 Posts: 563 Location: Embakasi
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My local supermarket has already voluntarily stopped using plastic bags. If you've purchased a lot they will give you a cardboard box but for smaller shopping they encourage you to buy a reusable bag like the ones Nakumatt sell. In a place where thought is abandoned, freedom can become a curse.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 5/5/2011 Posts: 1,059
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The environment already gaining with the ban,there is a corner in our estate where the wind blows plastic bags it's amazingly clean,also today at Naivas they run out of packaging kabisa even cartons and the bags they sell,they seem to not have thought outvthe ban To Each His Own
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/29/2011 Posts: 2,242
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kayhara wrote:The environment already gaining with the ban,there is a corner in our estate where the wind blows plastic bags it's amazingly clean,also today at Naivas they run out of packaging kabisa even cartons and the bags they sell,they seem to not have thought outvthe ban Great that the eyesore that was plastic bags is dissapearing. "Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least." Goethe
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