General News of Tuesday, 5 June 2018Source: www.ghanaweb.com‘It will be very difficult to ban plastic in Ghana now’ - Professor Frimpong-Boatengplay videoMinister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng‘’Government will come up with a policy to turn plastic waste into resources because we are not ready as a country to ban plastic now, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has said. At the World Environment Day commemoration held in Accra on 5th June 2018, the Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation said there had been a lot of suggestions from many quarters that some African countries had banned plastics so Ghana should do same. In response however, Prof. Frimpong-Boateng, who doubles as the Chairperson of the Inter-Ministerial Taskforce against Illegal Mining discarded such recommendations and said, illegal mining operations have contaminated the water bodies and a lot of Ghanaians now rely on sachet water for drinking. I know a few countries that sensibly have banned plastics but if you go there now, there’s active smuggling into the country where they claim to have banned it. If you sew your cloth and a piece is left, we should fashion that into a bag and use it.

Source: GhanaWeb June 05, 2018 16:52 UTC