A dumping site. The UN has raised alarm over the growing threat to human health and the environment from hazardous waste generated by plastic in Africa. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
The United Nations has raised alarm over the growing threat to human health and the environment from hazardous waste generated by plastic in Africa.
Now, the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) Regional Office of Africa is recommending that Africa cushions itself from the unfolding plastic menace by adding all forms of plastics to Annex 1 of the Bamako Convention that prohibits and regulates importation and trans-boundary movement and management of hazardous wastes within Africa states.
