Plastic pollution said to cost Ghana $6b every year    - Ghana Business News

Urgent measures needed to avert plastic waste disaster  - Dr. Rosemary Akolaa

By Sandra Agyeiwaa OTOO Dr. Rosemary Andersen Akolaa, a lecturer at the University of Environment and Sustainable Development, has called for urgent national action to tackle the growing plastic pollution crisis. Speaking on the topic ‘Plastic pollution in Ghana: Challenges, solutions and the path forward’ at the 2025 Environmental Sustainability Summit (ESS) in Accra, she warned that plastic waste poses serious threats to health, the environmen…

Plastic pollution said to cost Ghana $6b every year    - Ghana Business News

The country generates 1.1 billion of plastic waste annually, Mr Richard Adjei-Poku, the Executive Director of the Livelihood and Environment Ghana (LEG), an environmentally centered organisation has said.  “However, only nine percent of the waste is recycled, 41 percent is collected, and 50 percent remains uncollected”, he told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview in Sunyani, saying the nation spent close to $6 billion in cleaning plastic…