Ban on styrofoam, single-use plastics crucial to ending floods — EPA boss

Klutse said that while heavy rainfall contributed to flooding, human activities such as building on watercourses and the indiscriminate disposal of plastic waste have significantly worsened the problem the country is witnessing.

Klutse said the Accra floods epitomised the level of impunity and the irresponsible use of plastics, and their consequences for the country, adding that the causes were three major factors: heavy rains; obstruction of natural water pathways through illegal construction and the dumping of styrofoam and other plastics into drains and water bodies.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Professor Nana Ama Brown Klutse, has reiterated the call for a ban on styrofoam “takeaway packs” and other forms of single-use plastics as a major step towards addressing the perennial flooding wreaking havoc across the country.