A not-for-profit organisation, Climate Change Advisors Ghana, has donated two plastic collection bins to the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to help deal with the plastic waste menace.

The Co-founder of CCAG, Mr. Peter A. Doh, said the organisation promotes climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and activities.

Therefore, the CCAG was providing the plastic collection bins for collecting plastic waste on campus, and later, the Environmental Protection Agency would transport it to the recycling centres.

Present at the meeting were a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Animal Science at UCC, Dr. Samuel Ofori, and other members of the CCAG.

The Pro Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Denis Aheto, expressed gratitude to CCA Ghana for the donation and said that while some effort was being made to efficiently manage the waste, many plastics end up in the sea, ultimately affecting one of the critical economic livelihood support sectors, the fisheries industry.

He said the coastal communities and fishermen had their nets catching a lot of plastic instead of fish most of the time. That, he indicated, had worrying effects on their livelihoods. He further explained that the plastics that found their way into the water bodies released microplastics into the water, thus affecting aquatic life.

Source: Documentation and Information Section-UCC