Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic.
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.
This is relevant because Kenya is one of the more developed countries in Africa and expansion of plastics there will lead to more plastic pollution elsewhere on the continent and restrictions on restricting plastics (such as no plastic bag bans) in Kenya will also have those same restrictions applied to the US.
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.
This is relevant because Kenya is one of the more developed countries in Africa and expansion of plastics there will lead to more plastic pollution elsewhere on the continent and restrictions on restricting plastics (such as no plastic bag bans) in Kenya will also have those same restrictions applied to the US.