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General News of Tuesday, 23 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n2019-04-23\n\n

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General News of Tuesday, 23 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n

2019-04-23<\/p>\n

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\"PlasticGhana generates over 3,000 tonnes of waste plastics every day<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The US Embassy in Ghana has warned that there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050.<\/p>\n

According to a post on their official Facebook page, the embassy stated that about 82% of Ghana\u2019s plastics waste could be recovered and recycled with existing technologies into value-added products valued at GHC2 billion per year, creating 5 million jobs within the economy.<\/p>\n

The embassy noted that less than 2% of 3,000 tonnes of plastic waste generated in Ghana every day are recycled.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than 250,000 tonnes, or 23%, of all plastic waste generated in a year in Ghana are expected to flow into the Atlantic Ocean. By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by weight,\u201d the post reads on.<\/p>\n

Ghana is experiencing a plastic menace, with almost everything, including food and non-food items, being packaged in plastic, without any elaborate plan in operation to deal with the waste generated after the products have been used.<\/p>\n

Various media reportage indicates that 10 per cent of the environmental tax is imposed on plastic product producers and this has yielded close to GH\u00a21 billion, without a dime being released to manage plastic waste.<\/p>\n

The stakeholders that deal with plastics are of the view that recycling was the best way to effectively deal with used up polyethene terephthalate (PET) bottles.<\/p>\n