President John Dramani Mahama has announced that his government has placed the environment at the heart of Ghana’s development with a ban on the importation and production of Styrofoam (TAKE AWAY BOWLS) for food packaging in Ghana.
He stated that this move will promote the use of paper and aluminium packaging materials.
President Mahama outlined key policies and progress made in protecting Ghana’s natural resources.
Speaking during World Environment Day celebrations at Kwabenya, Accra, the president explained that the move aims to preserve the country’s trees and promote the use of sustainable materials.
“We can’t be planting trees and cutting them down at the same time,” President Mahama said. “And so to reduce the cutting of trees, it is my intention to issue a directive to stop the use of wood for school furniture. We’re soon going to pass a directive. School furniture will no longer be made of wood so that we can stop the cutting down of our trees. We’ll either use recycled plastic or we’ll use metal furniture.”
“One of the most pernicious polluters is styrofoam plastic,” he said. “When you go to buy your food and they put it in that white plastic something… And then you finish eating; you just dump it. That is one of the biggest polluters. And so we’re going to ban the importation of styrofoam plastics. We have to use paper packaging or aluminium foil for packaging our food.”
“With the Ministry of Environment, soon we’re going to ban the importation and production of styrofoam in Ghana. Our food packaging will be made from paper and also from aluminium material,” he said.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana