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    "id": 778691,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this petition. I saw my very good friend, Sen. Kang’ata with his constituents vigorously demanding that Murang’a County, which has been a very good source of water for the city and other amenities, being used as a dumping site is totally unacceptable. I do not know whether it is in the same vein that we also saw some monkeys being chased away around sometimes back. However, that is a story for another day. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at the history of this Republic, in the 1980s, the major concern was the dumping of poisonous waste from the so-called developed countries to African countries. In fact, a classical case was where somebody from the United Kingdom wanted to buy land worth Kshs2 billion then to use it for toxic waste dumping. It is quite interesting that with the advent of devolution, we are seeing this issue arising from two neighbouring counties –Nairobi and Murang’a. The data that is available shows that if we are not able to take care of our waste globally, our oceans are suffocating with plastic waste. In fact, it is estimated that by 2050, there may be more plastic waste than fish in our oceans. That is something that is quite telling. We need to look at this because plastic alone takes about 500 to 1000 years for it to decompose and much less years if at all that process is fast-tracked. Yet, if you look at plastic particularly, only about 12 per cent is recycled for use globally. Rather than having these disputes between Nairobi and Murang’a counties, we have an opportunity to invent ways of ensuring that we meet our energy demands. In fact, we are able to depopulate our environment with the waste that is there. So when the Senate Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources goes to investigate this, I think one of the things that would help this august House is to propose measures through which we can ensure that such disputes do not arise in future and that we take advantage of the humongous amount of waste that is being generated by our cities, towns and villages. All of us have seen a tremendous change with the ban of polythene in our places. This is because you see less and less of these papers around and that has provided a better environment for all of us. I fully support this Petition. It is in good taste, and I would The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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