Acting Director of Built Environment at the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Cindy Badu has said if care is not taken the sea will be filled with more plastics than fishes to feed us.
According to EPA boss, steps must be taken to check the rate at which people disposed of plastic wastes in their communities which eventually finds its way into the sea.
Cindy Badu made this call at an event to mark International Waste Pickers day in Accra on Saturday, March 2.
The event was organized by Total Ghana Ltd together with Voltic, COLIBA and the Ghana Recycling Initiative by Private Enterprises sort to celebrate waste pickers in the capital.
Fishermen along the coastal belt of the country for some years now have been complaining about their low catch due to the plastics in the sea.
According to them, a time will come they will only bring home plastics instead of fishes, the trend is also common in some western world too.
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Commenting on the threat the situation posed to the country, Madam Cindy Badu said any initiative that will help bring the situation under control must be supported.
“The environment is a shared responsibility. The menace of plastic waste is now a developmental concern. At the rate at which plastic is entering the seas, there is likely to be more plastic than fish in some decades to come. Any initiative to needs to prevent plastic pollution both in the sea and environment needs to be encouragedâ€.
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