Offpoint:
I'm in support of, plastic bags, bottles, cans etc are responsible for a lot of environmental disasters. Nigerians naturally are dirty people who throw their empties anywhere after consumption.

There are paper cups, bottles, cans and bags being used in advance country... we should adopt that.

Visit some places in Lagos and you'll definitely support this.

Kreamie:
Nylon has been banned in Rwanda. That’s a futuristic country. Why can’t it be banned it NIGERIA?

There are countries making bags out of processed cassava; something we have in abundance. Even Adidas has started making biodegradable running shoes cos they care about their environment. Why can’t we imitate that technology since that’s what we’re good at? You see nylon/plastic bags littering the whole place without any hope of them being recycled.

Nylon causes more harm than good to the environment generally.

Offpoint:
I'm in support... plastic bags, bottles, cans etc are responsible for a lot of environmental disasters. Nigerians naturally are dirty people who throw their empties anywhere after consumption.

There are paper cups, bottles, cans and bags being used in advance country... we should adopt that.

Next should be pampers, sanitary pads and torn females pants. They're responsible for most flood in Nigeria.

Visit some places in Lagos and you'll definitely support this.

Kreamie:
Nylon has been banned in Rwanda. That’s a futuristic country. Why can’t it be banned it NIGERIA?

There are countries making bags out of processed cassava; something we have in abundance. Even Adidas has started making biodegradable running shoes cos they care about their environment. Why can’t we imitate that technology since that’s what we’re good at? You see nylon/plastic bags littering the whole place without any hope of them being recycled.

Nylon causes more harm than good to the environment generally.

AerialMapper:
Fortunately, the one thing i learned in Chemical and Polymer Engineering was how to make plastic bags biodegradable!

Mix in starch into the molten polymer before extrusion...SIMPLE.

Many years ago, i bought stuff from a supermarket and left the bag in my bag. A few months later, the bag had broken down into flakes. This is a simple solution to the problem of plastic bags

cyborg123:

You could draft a proposal to any nylon company and make some money instead of blasting the idea openly.

Jaqenhghar:

Actually you are the one still in the stone age

martineverest:
typical example of EDUCATED ILLITERATE

TMemos:


Did you read the message before attacking the federal government?

B3sty:
Misplaced Priority from the Federal Government.
Government of "Try & Error".
Do they want us to go back to Stone Age where Local Baskets were being used?
Chain!

Tats:
In the UK, it is not yet banned. What has been implemented is that you pay 5 pence for each bag you use hence the demand has drastically reduced as people now reuse the ones they have bought. In the meantime, they are thinking of increasing the cost to 10 pence while they find alternatives to plastics. Paper bags are already in use too but other alternatives are being considered. In USA, they use loads of plastic bags. If you go to Walmart, they will practically put every one or two items into a different bag and you end up with 10 or more bags per shopping trip. They need to do more there.

MicroBox:

Read the post before commenting and don't fall in the category of lazy Nigerian youths who are educated illiterates.