The issue of waste management in Ghana is gradually getting out of hands as research has proven that about 80% of urban dwellers have no access to improved sanitation.
Gutters are choked with human excreta, plastics and other solid wastes.
Notwithstanding, a tour of the beaches across the country, especially those in Accra reveals how the country’s sanitation system works as the shores are ‘beautified’ with bottles and human wastes.
Recently, fishermen have complained bitterly about how plastic waste is killing the fish in the sea and other water bodies.
According to the fishermen, instead of harvesting fish, their nets end up catching plastic waste as a result of indiscriminate dumping of waste in water bodies.
This development has raised the debate on whether the use of plastics should be banned or not.
Meanwhile, President Nana Akufo-Addo has pledged to make Accra which is the capital town of Ghana the cleanest city among other cities in Africa.
In order to achieve this vision, the President has created a ministry to take charge of sanitation in the country.
However, the considering the nature of Ghana’s waste management system, the President will have a herculean task in addressing sanitation unless Ghanaians change their attitude of littering and dumping of garbage haphazardly.
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