Mr Ebbo Botwe, the President of the Ghana Plastic Manufacturers Association has said a fund set up in 2011 for plastic waste management has accrued a total of GHC 724 million as March 2018, but the sector Minister thinks different.
The Ghana Plastic Manufacturers Association (GPMA) has said an outright ban on use of plastics can lead to the loss of about 5,276,770 jobs, representing 18.2 per cent of the Ghanaian population.
The Ghana Plastic Manufacturers Association (GPMA) has called on the government to release the 10 per cent environmental excise tax with immediate effect for its intended purpose.
he Ghana Plastic Manufacturers Association (GPMA) has called on the government to ban the importation of flexible plastic bags from China into Ghana.
The Ghana Plastic Manufacturers Association (GMPA) has appealed to government to come up with a legislative instrument to regulate the use and management of plastics in the country as was already pertaining in three African countries.
Ghana Plastic Manufacturers’ Association was founded in 2004 by plastic manufacturers’ and supported by the Ministry of Trade & Industries.GPMA was the first to initiate commercial plastic waste recycling in Ghana in the year 2006. The most popular one in Ghana is the collection and sale of empty water sachet plastic waste business.
