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Plastic water sachets are an essential way to provide people in Guinea with safe and affordable drinking water. But their use clashes with the government’s objective of outlawing single-use plastics. Until a solution can be found, authorities have been forced to lift a ban, less than three weeks after implementing it. <\/em><\/p>\n The Republic of Guinea<\/a> passed its law to ban single-use plastics two years ago, but only enforced it on 20 September.<\/p>\n However, in the face of mounting public anger, it was forced…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Plastic water sachets are an essential way to provide people in Guinea with safe and affordable drinking water. But their use clashes with the government’s objective of outlawing single-use plastics. Until a solution can be found, authorities have been forced to lift a ban, less than three weeks after implementing it. The Republic of Guinea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":248173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,7185,12379,12626,4715,1124,7672,257,9933,6803,254,31132,6722],"class_list":["post-248172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-clashes","tag-green","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-guineas","tag-news","tag-plastic","tag-safe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thirsty","tag-water"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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