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"content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the opportunity to comment on this Petition for people of Indian Bazaar in Kiambu. The paradox of this whole matter on the issue of the waste is that there are some countries in this world which are looking for waste when others have nowhere to dispose of their waste. The other day, I read that a country like Denmark which normally uses waste to produce energy, has a shortage of waste yet here we are wondering where to dispose of our waste. Whether or not we have the technology to produce energy from this waste, it is time we took responsibility for our own consumption. Most of the time this waste comes from things that we normally get free from the environment. I will cite a case in point where today if you go to Europe you will not get a single shop that gives you a polythene paper bag to carry your goods when you buy them. You are forced to buy a paper bag and because of that reason, most people have gone back to recycling. You buy one paper bag which you keep on recycling. You do not have paper bags to waste. In this country, as much there was a proposal to encourage the manufacturers of nylon papers to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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