“At the end of the day, we are targeting a clean Rwanda…a green Rwanda, where people  have a place. They have a city, they have a role to play in what we do,” Rose Mukankomeje, director general of the Rwanda Environmental Management Authority (REMA) said.

According to a CCTV Africa report, Rwanda’s government ban on the use and manufacture of plastic bags in 2008 has propelled Kigali to the cleanest city on the continent. Now that farms are clear of plastics, agriculture has blossomed.

One of the setbacks to the country’s progress, Mukakomeje added, is products which come from neighboring countries that are still packaged in plastic.