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I saw a vivid and concrete example of the effect a law banning plastic bags can have on a country.  A year or so ago Rwanda enacted a national law banning all plastic bags throughout the country.  When you cross the border or fly into the country, customs will often go through your luggage and require that you discard any plastic bags before entering the country. The result is dramatic. If you cross the border from adjoining countries you see landscapes covered in plastic bags (in trees, ditches, gutters, burn piles) and as soon as you cross into Rwanda the hillsides are clean and there is not a plastic bag to be seen .Though this is only one tool inRwandans mulitfaced evironmental reform, it's working.

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