Instead, it is discarded and ultimately ends up polluting marginal land such as flooded areas and open dumping grounds before making its way into the ocean . Burning plastic waste for cooking and ...

THOUSANDS of people have been displaced after days of heavy rain paralysed Greater Jakarta, flooding homes and businesses, ...

Ms Geke blamed the flooding on encroachment, saying the expanded Mukuru kwa Reuben and Mukuru kwa Njenga slums had taken up the drainage spaces that existed previously. During last week’s heavy ...