Stop degrading the environment

I was born in the late 80s and lived in Naalya in the 90s.
When we were growing up, kaveera/plastic bags and plastic bottles were not as common as they are today.
Bread such as Tip Top was paper packed (we even used to cover our books with those bread packs).

Soda was packed in glass bottles which are easily recycled. Today, packaging has changed in a detrimental way. What went wrong?
You would say times have changed but do we have to give in to the visible downside of change?

Why does development have to cause degradation?
Laws are put in place but never implemented. Where is this country headed to?

My grandfather used to clean the compound by sweeping it while pulling out weeds from the yard. Today I was cleaning the yard and because it has been raining, there was a lot of plastic buried in our yard.

Instead of pulling out weeds like grandpa did, I was pulling out plastic bags and bottles!
Now every politician is looking for votes but none of them is really concerned enough to consider addressing this prevailing environmental plague.

Why doesn’t anyone step up especially KCCA and other authorities and implement the law on plastics and kaveera use? We are degrading the environment. Where will our children and children’s children live? In a barren land? Because we looked on and did nothing when we saw the pearl of Africa being distorted by its citizens who embrace every kind of investment even those that are robbing the pearl of its pearly features?

Plastic packs have got to be banned.
We should consider the times to come. We should stop adopting things that don’t benefit but instead ruin us. Developed countries recycle their plastics, but we don’t yet we want to live like them.
We should live to our motto which says For God and My Country. This is our country and we should be responsible for it.
The anti-plastic living starts with you the citizen. Let us keep the pearl shinning
Twin Olyvia,
olyviatwin87@gmail.com