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Big Oil Wants to Use a Stealthy Trade Deal to Kill African Environmental Protections
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Chemical, oil and gas companies face plastic bags bans and other policies to fight the plastic waste that is clogging rivers and choking our oceans. Since China banned plastic waste imports in 2018, the industry has sought a new place for the garbage as vital to maintaining demand for sales of more single-use plastics.
A recent New York Times exposé identified the U.S.-Kenya Free Trade Agreement now being negotiated by the Trump Administration as the chemical and oil industries’ vehicle to gut Kenya’s cutting edge plastics policies and establish a gateway to make Africa a new dumping ground for plastic waste.
In this episode, we discuss the Kenya plastics case as sadly just one of many examples of how corporate-rigged trade rules can undermine and gut a country’s domestic environmental protections.
Learn more at rethinktrade.org.
Music: Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-groveLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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