Earth Care Ghana starts fight against plastic waste

Earth Care Ghana with its volunteering members last Saturday started its awareness campaign to end plastic pollution. According to the executive director of the organization Kwame Appiah Kubi, he said after five years of Paris Agreement, little has been done by various political leaders across the globe. Their vision is to unite community groups, schools, businesses, and local governments to carry out activities that address local environmental issues.

He said Covid-19 is the most urgent threat facing humanity today, but we cannot forget that climate change is the biggest threat facing humanity over the long term.

Kubi said now is the time for nations to shape the 21st-century economy in ways that are clean and green for the next decade because we produce almost a million tonnes of plastic every day, and most of that is not recycled but left to landfill, or worse, finding its way into the oceans.

Up to 90% of seabirds have plastic in their guts, and hundreds of thousands of animals die annually as a direct result of plastic – either from consumption or entanglement. It is a very overwhelming prospect, and certainly one that we can’t ignore. But we need to continue that concern into positive action. Earth Care Ghana is set to achieve its course by campaigning against plastic pollution.

Kubi urge volunteers “not to lose hope, not to stop but to continue to campaign for what they believe in, and do what you can to protect what your environment. “

Each person’s contribution is going to be different, but all are so important. Stay focused on the solutions and stay positive, because after all, we have only one planet to save.

He finished his closing remarks by saying “the greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it” – Robert Swan OBE

-The Post