Ghana’s President Warns to emulate Rwanda on use of plastics

{Ghana’s President is proposing to go Rwanda way by banning use of plastic bags if producers fail to properly manage plastic waste.}

Mr John Dramani Mahama warned this while addressing members of the El-Wak Keep Fit Club in Accra last Saturday after a health walk to mark Republic Day.

“It has become such a pernicious pollutant. If producers of plastics don’t do something about it, then we may have to go the Rwanda way. In Rwanda, plastics are banned; nobody uses plastics and yet they are surviving,” he said.

In 2008, Rwanda outlawed the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags.

While the law prohibited the manufacture, use, importation and sale of plastic bags, it also carried a one-year sentence and huge fines for offenders.