{"id":1188245,"date":"2022-08-23T20:32:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T20:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/malta-guinness-kicks-off-national-plastics-clean-up-campaign-in-agbogbloshie\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T20:32:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T20:32:20","slug":"malta-guinness-kicks-off-national-plastics-clean-up-campaign-in-agbogbloshie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/malta-guinness-kicks-off-national-plastics-clean-up-campaign-in-agbogbloshie\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\" title=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Producers of Ghana\u2019s biggest non-alcoholic brewed malt beverage, Malta Guinness have kicked off a national plastic clean-up and awareness campaign at Agbogbloshie in the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Malta-Guinness-7-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\" class=\"wp-image-10032157356\"   title=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The campaign will be community-focused and represents a bold leadership move by the multi-award winning malt brand in driving plastics sustainability, conversations to spur action and concrete actions to address the issue of plastics pollution.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Malta-Guinness-3-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\" class=\"wp-image-10032157358\"   title=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMost plastic packaging by consumers is used only once and then sent to landfill or ends up in drains, illegal dumps, and on our beaches. To counter this, Guinness Ghana signed a landmark partnership with Coliba Ghana to fund 10 plastic bottle buy-back centres in Accra and Kumasi to collect plastic bottles after consumers\u2019 use, to stimulate and increase collection and recycling rates,\u201d Corporate Relations Director, Sylvia Owusu-Ankomah noted in an interview.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Malta-Guinness-6-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\" class=\"wp-image-10032157355\"   title=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are a trusted brand that connects with purpose, and we equally believe this campaign supports government\u2019s efforts to ensure that our communities are clean and rid of pollutants like plastics.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Malta-Guinness-9-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\" class=\"wp-image-10032157357\"   title=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Marketing and Innovations Director, Estella Muzito pointed out that Malta Guinness\u2019 commitment to the campaign is multifaceted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Malta-Guinness-8-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\" class=\"wp-image-10032157354\"   title=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs part of our journey to reinforce our leadership position as the brand that fuels a world of good and a can-do spirit, Malta Guinness is championing this plastic collection sustainability agenda with the sensitization of communities in the form of this plastic collection activity in the Agbogbloshie Community.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Malta-Guinness-1-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\" class=\"wp-image-10032157361\"   title=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>She added that \u201cWe started this off with a \u2018trainer of trainers\u2019 exercise with 10 women in the community to create awareness around the impact of plastics and the varying uses plastic waste can be put to.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Malta-Guinness-5-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\" class=\"wp-image-10032157353\"   title=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAlogboshie is home for us and with a long and shared history with this community that dates back to the 1960s, we deemed it relevant to kickoff this campaign here and extend it to other areas across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Malta-Guinness-2-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\" class=\"wp-image-10032157359\"   title=\"Malta Guinness kicks off national plastics clean-up campaign in Agbogbloshie\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis campaign is not a one-off event. Malta Guinness will be activating this engagement and attitudinal change in communities where we source, make and sell our brands. We might be headed to a community near you soon, so watch out for the Malta Guinness cleanup\/ plastics awareness campaign caravan,\u201d Mrs. Estella Muzito said.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Producers of Ghana\u2019s biggest non-alcoholic brewed malt beverage, Malta Guinness have kicked off a national plastic clean-up and awareness campaign at Agbogbloshie in the Greater Accra Region. The campaign will be community-focused and represents a bold leadership move by the multi-award winning malt brand in driving plastics sustainability, conversations to spur action and concrete actions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[23704,487,16322,6333,6261,24201,1093,24202],"class_list":["post-1188245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-agbogbloshie","tag-campaign","tag-cleanup","tag-guinness","tag-kicks","tag-malta","tag-national","tag-plastics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}