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Somalia bans plastic bags in pollution fight

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Discarded plastic is abundant as people scavenge at the Wadajir municipal dumping site in Mogadishu, Somalia, June 2, 2018. [AFP]

Somalia on Tuesday imposed a long-delayed ban on single-use plastic bags to help tackle pollution, the latest African country to try to stem the tide of non-biodegradable waste.

The new law, first announced in February, prohibits the importation, production, sale and use of plastic bags, which usually end up dumped as litter or buried in landfills.

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