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The Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA Ghana) is an agency of Ministry, established by EPA Act 490 (1994). [1] The agency is dedicated to improving, conserving and promoting the country's environment and striving for environmentally sustainable development with sound, efficient resource management, taking into account social and equity issues.
Like many of the informal e-waste recyclers picking through the trash that comes largely from Europe and North America, Amin Idris comes from northern Ghana. For a fee ranging from 2 to 10 U.S ...
A big refuse on the side of the road in Accra Central Business District in Ghana . First Saturday of every month [1] is earmarked National Sanitation Day across Ghana. First declared on November 1, 2014, by the Government of Ghana in response to the 2014 Ghanaian cholera outbreak, the day is a voluntary clean-up exercise for all Ghanaian residents in an effort to reduce unsanitary conditions ...
Electronic Waste at Agbogbloshie, Ghana. Gold, copper, and other valuable metals and minerals are sought after in e-waste, and despite the environmental and public health effects, people informally work in dumping sites. [2] Agbogbloshie provides work for an estimated 4500 to 6000 people, and byproducts from e-waste have made it a global ...
A specialized trash collection truck providing regular municipal trash collection in a neighborhood in Stockholm, Sweden Waste pickers burning e-waste in Agbogbloshie, a site near Accra in Ghana that processes large volumes of international electronic waste. The pickers burn the plastics off of materials and collect the metals for recycling ...
Moreover, less than 25% of the 46 industrial and municipal treatment plants in Ghana were functional according to an inventory undertaken by the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency in 2001. Treatment plants for municipal wastewater are operated by local governments, and most of them are stabilization ponds . [ 38 ]
The E-waste programme was implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit in partnership with Ghanaian Ministry of Environment Science Technology and Innovation (MESTI). [40] In March 2019, a training facility, a Ghana Health service clinic, and a football pitch, were provided.
The UN Environment Programme estimates that, between the years 2000 and 2014, people started buying 60 per cent more clothes and wearing them for half as long. Discarded second-hand clothing is ...