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Plastic waste: Debate about Law banning plastic bags in Angola: The advisory policy to a Member of Parliament (MP) of RMLA (Revolutionary Movement for Liberation of Angola) in Angola
Charles Karangwa
Abstract
Plastic pollution has always been a challenge to human life and environment worldwide. It is undoubtable that the plastic waste continues to increase in aquatic and terrestrial areas due to high consumption of goods packed in plastics. The Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to its increase due to the quick development of the digital business whereby the restaurants and other catering companies are delivering their products in plastics at home. In that context, it has been recently declared by UN that more than 11 tones millions are dumped in oceans every year causing a huge burden on earth’s ecosystem health. Therefore, I established and suggested an advisory policy to the MPs of one of Angolan political Parties RMLA based on analysis of impact of plastic waste in the city of Luanda after evaluation of some measures that have been taken over the years. This research paper is meant to provide some of the solutions to the current human and environmental problems caused by the poor waste management of plastic waste in Angola. It has also been an opportunity to explore all possible solutions to the current challenges at hand. In several African countries, lawmakers have enacted the legislation to protect the environment from contamination due to increased plastic pollution. For that reason, this research aims at evaluating the strategic measures that have been implemented in some African developing countries. For the realistic analysis and solutions, I chose to explore the law about the sustainable development in Rwanda and Kenya, as two African countries that have successfully implemented a plastic bag ban and are in the final stages of implementing a single-use plastic ban.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30845/jbep.v12p2
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Published: 5 August 2025
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Charles Karangwa, PPE Master of Arts at University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany.
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