Workers of Bobmil Industries, a company that manufactures polythene bags along Mombasa Road, have taken to the streets to protest the ban on plastic bags.
The employees are complaining that they may be rendered jobless and are demanding answers from the government.
Earlier reports indicated that they were on their way to the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) offices to have their grievances heard.
The ban on plastic carrier bags came into force on Monday, and anyone found selling, manufacturing or carrying them could face fines of up to Sh4 Million or prison sentences of up to four years.
The government says the ban will help protect the environment but manufacturers argued that 80,000 jobs could be lost.
A court on Friday rejected a challenge to the ban.
Kenyans are estimated to use 24 million bags a month.
Several other African countries including Rwanda, Mauritania and Eritrea have outlawed plastic carrier bags.
Kenya's ban is seen as one of the toughest in the world, although officials say that for now, ordinary shoppers will be warned and have their bags confiscated.
The streets of Nairobi were swamped with hawkers who overnight had switched from whatever else they had been selling to alternative bags of all sorts including travel bags which they encouraged pedestrians to buy to beat the polythene bags ban.
Wholesalers of packaging materials, who had been popular stockists of the polythene bags, had also switched to other alternatives.
Here is the video:
#PlasticBagBan @citizentvkenya @C_NyaKundiH happening now at NEMA south c pic.twitter.com/JN9rxkkRiH
— aldrin sango (@sango_aldrin) August 29, 2017
