{"id":36135,"date":"2017-10-25T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rema-police-on-anti-plastic-bags-use-inspection\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T19:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:21:54","slug":"rema-police-on-anti-plastic-bags-use-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rema-police-on-anti-plastic-bags-use-inspection\/","title":{"rendered":"REMA, police on anti-plastic bags use  inspection campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The exercise started this Wednesday in different parts of Gasabo and Nyarugenge districts. <\/p>\n<p>In Gasabo district, three bakeries which were packaging bread in plastic bags were fined with Rwf300,000  each and plastic bags for small shops were confiscated. <\/p>\n<p>REMA staff also took off some time to talk   to shop owners about the effects of plastic bags on the environment in the short and long term.<\/p>\n<p>A Remera-based trader, Diane Uwamahoro who was found with plastic bags said they are cheap in comparison to other packaging materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to wholesale them at Rwf300 from Nyabugogo.  We use them because they are cheap, but from today I will not use them again\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Environment Inspection Officer at REMA, Israel Dufatanye urged the public not to use plastic bags as they negatively affect the environment and human health.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the public to use paper bags, emphasizing that those found in possession of plastics bags will be penalized.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda  banned the use  of plastic bags in 2005. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22293 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rema.jpg\" alt=\"Confiscated products packaged in plastic bags\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) in partnership with Rwanda National Police have embarked on a countrywide inspection program to find out traders who still use plastic bags in packing and packaging their products. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36135"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36135"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}