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AbibiNsroma Foundation Celebrating Earth Day
Earth Day is an opportunity to raise awareness of environmental
challenges of climate change and the pandemic. This year, the theme for Earth
Day is ' Restore Our Earth'.
The theme is a call to action for all humans to use
natural resources judiciously, take care of wildlife and ensure that we lead a
sustainable life.
Plastic is produced from petroleum, which is a
non-renewable resource. The production generates harmful waste to the
environment: the drilling process releases numerous harmful gases. At the same
time, the incineration of the 12% plastic waste also generates greenhouse gases
that lead to global warming.
Plastic waste management is of great necessity not for
our cities and urban areas but for the rural areas as well. We are always
concerned with how we can properly and sustainably manage the tons of plastic
waste generated every day to help maintain our environment to save our mother
earth and help humans to live a good healthy environment. Plastic pollution
however can be attributed the phenomenon of overcrowding in our cities which
has caused a rapid increase in the plastic wastes generated. Unfortunately, the
amount of plastic waste, one of the most important by-products of an urban
lifestyle, is growing even faster than the rate of urbanization.
The adverse effects of climate change are universal but
more severe in Africa. Ghana is no exception with drought and flooding
affecting citizens. The most affected are farmers: because the change in rainfall
patterns is reducing crop yield and in some cases destroying farms, hence loss
of livelihoods.
AbibiNsroma Foundation is calling on Ministry of Local
Government and Rural Development to enforce the climate change policy and mandates
local assemblies to spearhead climate change action.
In this light, AbibiNsroma Foundation believes that as
the world and Ghana marks Earth Day with the theme ' Restore Our Earth',
intensive education is urgently needed to raise Ghanaians’ awareness of the
negative impact of irresponsible waste disposal in general and plastic waste in
particular. Education must also be used to forge a positive change in our
attitude towards the Planet.
Earth Day provides a suitable platform to raise public
awareness around the world pertaining to the challenges and the well-being
of the planet. Let’s remind more than ever on this International Mother Earth
Day that we need a shift to a more sustainable
