Ghana Bans Styrofoam Plastics 🇬🇭 | Effective January 2027

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Hello. This is Healthcare Updates. Last year, during the World Environment Day, His Excellency, John Dramani Mahama, said this in his speech.

[00:00:12]Styrofoam as a food packaging material.

[00:00:17]One of the most pernicious polluters is Styrofoam plastic.

[00:00:22]When you go to buy your food and they put it in that white plastic something, you know, and then you finish eating, you just dump it.

[00:00:31]That is one of the biggest polluters.

[00:00:34]And so, we're going to ban the importation of Styrofoam plastics. We have to use paper packaging or aluminum foil for packaging our food.

[00:00:44]And so, I'm informing the manufacturers and importers of Styrofoam with the Ministry of Environment. Soon, we're going to ban the importation of Styrofoam and production of Styrofoam in Ghana.

[00:00:55]Our food packaging will be made from paper and also from um um aluminum uh uh material.

[00:01:05]1 year after that, the Environmental Protection Agency also released this letter yesterday, confirming the banning of Styrofoam products in Ghana.

[00:01:20]Being distribution, production, with exception to some cases.

[00:01:26]But then, I think this is going to help in the long run.

[00:01:31]Yeah, in the long term, this is going to help.

[00:01:34]Because Styrofoam plastics are really causing pollution to our environment.

[00:01:41]The choked gutters and the flooding that we are seeing, these are all as a result of these plastics.

[00:01:48]So, I think going back to paper packaging, aluminum, or better still, Sankofa ye nkyim, the leaves, it's going to help.

[00:01:57]Yeah, it's going to help. Although it's going to be costly, but in the long run it's going to help all of us. This head care update, like, subscribe, and follow for more. Thank you.