A health researcher is warning Ghanaians against the use styrofoams, popularly referred to as ‘takeaway’ packs, for packaging food. The bowlike packs, which have become popular among food vendors...
US scientists have calculated the total amount of plastic ever made and put the number at 8.3 billion tonnes. It is an astonishing mass of material that has essentially been created only in the last...
Local plastic manufacturers say their businesses are being threatened by the volume of foreign plastic importation into the country. They are warning the situation would wipe them out of business in...
Social media has been awash with various reports accompanied with images, indicating the circulation of plastic rice on Ghanaian markets. However, The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has rubbished...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has categorically denied rumours that there is plastic rice on the Ghanaian market. Addressing the media at a press conference in Accra on Friday, June 23, 2017,...
Since the beginning of May this year, social networks across Africa and its Diaspora have been saturated with photos and videos showing horrified people demonstrating the presence of plastic in food...
Since the beginning of May this year, social networks across Africa and its Diaspora have been saturated with photos and videos showing horrified people demonstrating the presence of plastic in food...
Fishermen at Teshie, like in many other fishing communities in Ghana, have been plagued by plastic waste. Walking down any street in towns and cities or even in the villages, one can see plastics...
The bio-plastic can be used for the manufacturing of cups, bowls, packaging bags, etc The University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani has developed a bio-plastic, made out of corn...
Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) has called for deeper cross-sector collaboration between government, investors, researchers, non-for-profit organizations and the private sector to establish a...
Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) has called for deeper cross-sector collaboration between government, investors, researchers, non-for-profit organisations and the private sector to establish a...
Government has been urged to consider waiving taxes on imports of waste management equipment and logistics. A Research Consultant of Environmental Service Providers Association (ESPA), Matilda Owusu,...
In an attempt to fight the menace of plastic waste and also bridge the housing deficit gap in Ghana, a young man in his thirties has come out with an innovation to build houses using plastic bottles....
Do you know that you can be part of an innovative construction project by not throwing away your plastic bottle after a refreshing cool drink?There is an effective way of reusing the bottles; you can...
It has always been a great concern to me how Ghana is being left to suffer environmental degradation by the unconscious or conscious actions of our leaders and us. The way our cities, towns and...
It has always been a great concern to me how Ghana is being left to suffer environmental degradation by the unconscious or conscious actions of our leaders and us. The way our cities, towns and...
Unilever has committed to ensuring that all of its plastic packaging is fully reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025 as it called on the entire fast-moving consumer goods industry to accelerate...
