Young environmentalists have embarked on an initiative to plant and maintain trees on the Thika superhighway in a bid to combat hazardous carbon emissions by vehicles as well as green the highway.
Led by Anthony Muruthi, a trainer at the Nairobi National Polytechnic, they said thousands of vehicles that ply the Thika Superhighway pollute the environment through fossil-fuel combustion with no interventions to combat the situation.
According to Muruthi, their aim is to help in decarbonizing the highway from the gases being emitted by the vehicles and clean the air.
This, he said, will help residents living close to the highway from harmful gases which may cause diseases, and leave an extensive carbon footprint.
