First ZeroWaste Public Event in Ghana. On World Environmental Day 2018, GAYO together with Ghana Youth Environmental Movement held Power Shift 2018 in Accra to under the theme ‘Beat Plastic Pollution”. GAYO, led by Joshua Amponsem, was excited to share with about 200 young people the origin of plastics, how it pollutes our environment, the …
At GAYO, we say “all hands on deck no matter what”. From school to school, for nearly three months now, we have been focused on teaching pupils in basic schools on proper waste handling so that we can groom a generation of system changers that appreciates the right attitude to environmental cleanness. Waste, in general, is …
The regional meeting on Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) took place in Abidjan with the following objectives; to review the progress of implementation of the Strategic Approach within the region, to enable technical and strategic discussions and exchange of information to take place, to discuss the emerging policy issues and to strengthen and …
Globally over 1 million plastic bags are used and disposed every minute but I think the quota of India and Africa of the 1 million trash is much larger than that of America, Europe and Australia – comparing population. In Africa, I will congratulate Rwanda as the only country which has been able to ban …