Government won’t ban the use of plastics in Ghana - Minister

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Pulse-gh May 4, 2022 3:17 p.m.

Government won’t ban the use of plastics in Ghana - Minister

Then, of course, we’ll promote other reusable materials which are not too … harsh on our environment.” He added, “… if you’re doing plastic recycling the conventional wisdom is that you take the plastic that has been dumped and remoulds them, no, you need may of 30% of virgin plastics to prime them so that they can have that kind of rigidity.

So we are not going to ban plastics importation…” While on tour of some Zoomlion Ghana Limited’s plastics production plants (PPP) in Accra on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Dr.

Kwaku Afriyie, said the central government was aiming for a secular economy.

When you’re talking about recycling, actually, it’s like an extended use and then end of use we can turn them into other ways.” “So we have a model even about the plastics..

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