A $75,000 pilot project to tackle plastic waste pollution in the country is to begin from January next year.
It is the "Phase II of the Plastic Waste Pilots in Ghana" under the umbrella project "Further Actions to Address Plastic Waste under the Basel Convention." The one-year programme to be implemented by the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) in collaboration with BRS Convention, with funding from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and BRS Convention.
Speaking at a stakeholders workshop on the project in Accra yesterday, the Deputy Director of Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate at MESTI, Ms Abena Afriyie Appiah, said the pilot project was a sequel to a similar project which was carried out between 2018 and 2023.
She said the first phase involved six pilot projects on fish-net recycling, beach clean-ups, citizen science surveys, water vending machines, micro plastics, plastic-free schools, reusable bags, and edible and compostable packing.