The government is planning to ban the importation, manufacturing and use of Styrofoam plastic takeaway packs into the country. The impending ban of Styrofoam, a non-biodegradable material, is in response ...
Mr Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the Third Deputy Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, said the state must significantly invest in innovative waste management strategies and turn the associated challenges into opportunities. The ...
The Ghana Plastic Manufacturers’ Association, has called on the government to indefinitely suspend the implementation of the five per cent excise tax on ex-factory pricing on all locally manufactured plastic ...
The University of Ghana’s quest to provide a second life to plastic waste has received a boost with the receipt of dustbins and a tricycle from Coca-Cola, a beverage production ...
Plastic waste is projected to rise to 116m tonnes annually by 2060, six times more than the 18m tonnes of waste produced in 2019.
A lecturer at the University of Energy and natural Resources (UNER), Dr. Mary Antwi has entreated women and shoppers generally to use biodegradable bags for shopping to reduce the negative ...
At first glance, it looks like some mudfish swimming in an aquaculture farm are coming to the surface of the water to take their share of feed thrown into the ...
Plastic waste pickers operating under the Pick-It-Project facility in Tema Newtown have, in eleven months, averagely collected over 330 metric tonnes of plastic waste from the community and its environs ...
A 17-year-old Alicia Asante, who is also Ocean Conservation Advocate with support from sister siblings and school colleagues from Tema SOS HGIC and other schools has recycled plastic bottles into ...
Madam Betty Osei Bonsu, a Ghanaian climate activist, says mobilising key stakeholders at the grassroots would mitigate the effects of plastic pollution in various cities around the world.
