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.
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