News:
June 11, 2018
Former Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and Member of Parliament for Wa West, Joseph Yieleh Chireh is calling for total ban of plastics in Ghana to curtail the plastic waste menace.
According to the Wa West legislator, Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resource should collaborate with the Environment Science and Technology Ministry to bring a legislation for plastics to be banned.
He further cited Rwanda as a country that had return from war and had implemented ban on plastic use.
“What is preventing us from doing so, may be some interest are there let us address them, we need an environment free of plastics”, he lamented.
Again we must have the courage to bring policies that would ensure that we ban plastics, “the argument often is that there are so many people in this industry, what are you going to do for them, what would be the alternative?”
“I do not think these people were born into this industries, it was available for them to make money, but is it making money at the expense of real life, making money at the expense of the environment”?
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com