Earth Is Becoming ‘Planet Plastic’
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...
Tag: Water conservation
Groups Demand the Over GHC100 Million Accrued From Environmental Tax
“One and a half years ago, our enquiries at the Ghana Revenue Authority and Ministry of Finance indicated that we had paid in over 45 million Ghana Cedis,” Mr Daniel Yaw Mensah Tornyegah,...
Cape Town Contends With Worst Drought In Over A Century
The worst drought in a century is forcing the most stringent water restrictions ever implemented for South Africa's second largest city. Cape Town has less than 10% of its useable water remaining for...
German Gov’t Supports Ghana’s E-Waste Project With 15 Million Euro
The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), has held an inception technical workshop for the “Environmentally Sound Disposal and Recycling of E-waste in Ghana”...
Apple Touts Greater Use of Recycled Metal In Gadgets
Technology giant Apple wants to "one day" end the need to mine materials from the earth to make its gadgets, the company said in its annual environmental responsibility report out Thursday....
Guinness Ghana Calls For Cross-Sector Collaboration To Deal With Plastic Wastes
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 Calls For Cross-Sector Collaboration In Dealing With Plastic Waste
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...
Protect Ghana Water Bodies
Parliament yesterday observed International World Water Day, with a call on Ghanaians to devise ways to treat and re-use waste water. The Members of Parliament (MPs) said the re-use of waste water...
Waive Taxes On Sanitation Equipment — Researcher
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,...
CSIR Pokes Action Against Burning of E-Waste At Agbogbloshie
The Water Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is calling for a ban on what it calls “primitive recycling of e-wastes” due to the hazardous chemicals it...
Ghanaian Builds With Plastic Bottles, Giving Housing A New Definition!
As a way of tackling the menace of plastic waste, this talented Ghanaian builds with plastic bottles… Talk abut making the most out of recycling. A certain Ghanaian man has discovered an unusual...
Ghanaian Invents Cheaper Way of Building Houses
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....
Pastor Sets Up Taskforce To Fight Plastic Waste
The 21st Century Initiative (21st C. I.), has set up a task force to spearhead an innitiative to rid Ghana’s streets off plastic filth. The taskforce, which comprises a team of six leaders, was...
New Technology To Help Make Houses Affordable
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...
Let’s Use Waste For Power
Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Minsiter-designate Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has said rather than having landfill sites in the country, Ghana must look at possible ways of...
Unilever Commits To 100% Recyclable Plastic Packaging
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...
UK Recycling Figure Drops For First Time, Figures Show
The level of household waste which is recycled in the UK has fallen for the first time, figures have shown. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs statistics show that 44.3% of...
Emulate Nestls Business of Re-Using Waste Water
The Friday October 14, 2016 edition of The Chronicle carried a story with the caption, “Nestlé Ghana re-uses 30% of its Treated Waste Water”. According to the story, the Tema factory of Nestlé...
Scientists Use Solar-Powered Machine to Turn Urine into Beer
Scientists at Belgium’s University of Ghent say they’ve created a machine that turns urine into potable water, and fertilizer, using solar energy. The scientists have since crafted small batches...