Complement Extended Producer Responsibility

The Kenya Kwanza Government promised that it would complement Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) with a “bottom-up” community-based/owned value chain

In July 2025, Kenya became the first African nation to join the Responsible Sourcing Initiative, which aims to formalize 50,000 informal waste workers globally by 2026. This project connects frontline workers directly to brands and recyclers to ensure fair pay and safe conditions.
This collaboration between UNHCR/DRC, Mr. Green Africa, and Unilever has successfully integrated waste pickers into a formalized plastics value chain, scaling up from Nairobi to refugee settings like Kakuma.
While the government enacted The Sustainable Waste Management (Extended Producer Responsibility) Regulations, 2024, to extend the responsibility of producers over a product and its packaging to ensure sustainable waste management, there is no publicly available data demonstrating government measures to complement the EPR policy with community based/owned value chain as promised.

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Last updated: August 30, 2026 3:32 am