AMA and partner sensitise Kantamanto Market community on Extended Producer Responsibility
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) in collaboration with The Or Foundation, Ghana and USA-based non-governmental has sensitised the Kantamanto Market Community and the public on the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
The EPR is an environmental policy and a form of product stewardship that extends a producer’s responsibility for a product to the post-consumer stage of a product’s life-cycle, and is about paying for waste management, incentivizing companies to design better (more eco-friendly) products, while increasing recycling rates.
The event was also used for the signing of a resolution by the Kantamanto traders, especially second-hand cloth dealers to support the campaign on “Stop the Waste Colonialism” by preventing the export of waste clothing into the country.
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