Ten years on: Rwanda’s plastic ban

Living Planet: One year after Kenya's ban on plastic bags 30.08.2018

10 years on: Rwanda’s plastic ban 23.03.2018

Street vendors worry about Kenyan plastic ban 19.09.2017

The slow-growing trend towards plastic bans 12.01.2018

Growth of urban farming systems in Nigeria 14.01.2019

Scientists working to save Africa's largest lake 14.01.2019

Are e-trucks the future of transport in German cities? 14.01.2019

The Senegalese town on the verge of disappearance 11.01.2019

EU reaches agreement on single-use plastic ban 19.12.2018

A plan to ban single-use plastic products such as disposable plates and straws has been agreed. EU member states and the EU parliament still have to give the provisional agreement the go-ahead.

Welcome to the latest edition of eco@africa 02.11.2018

On this week's eco@africa, the fight to save an endangered frog in South Africa, eco-soap in Rwanda, a floating trash can, and ambitious reforestation in Rwanda. All this and much more!

Visiting Kenya a year into its plastic bag ban 28.08.2018

A year ago, Kenya banned plastic bags and introduced the toughest rules in the book to punish anyone caught making, selling or using them. Have these measures worked?

5 single-use plastics the EU should ban 24.10.2018

Balloons, cotton swabs, plastic bags — these are environmentally-damaging products we could live without. But not all of them are on the European Union's list of proposed items to ban. We pick five that should be.