Why We Need a Price for Pollution in Ghana

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• nelson 12 years ago

  hope you will consider the issue of electronic waste dumping in the country.

  hope you will consider the issue of electronic waste dumping in the country.

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• WAY-WAY 12 years ago

  Consider cleaning the waste in our enviroment first before heading to the manufactures,just because of your hungry for taxes.Collecting taxes doesn's solve the issue of pollution.

  Consider cleaning the waste in our enviroment first before heading to the manufactures,just because of your hungry for taxes.Collecting taxes doesn's solve the issue of pollution.

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• OBENG RAGO 12 years ago

  GHANA IS SO DIRTY AND FILTHY IT SHOCKS
  
  WHY? BECAUSE LAZY TALKATIVE NDC IS BACK IN GOVERNMENT
  
  YOU CAN JUDGE NDC GOVERNMENT BY THE DIRT, SQUALOR, POOR SANITATION, UNHYGIENIC CONDITIONS EXISTING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
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  GHANA IS SO DIRTY AND FILTHY IT SHOCKS
  
  WHY? BECAUSE LAZY TALKATIVE NDC IS BACK IN GOVERNMENT
  
  YOU CAN JUDGE NDC GOVERNMENT BY THE DIRT, SQUALOR, POOR SANITATION, UNHYGIENIC CONDITIONS EXISTING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
  
  NDC PEOPLE TALK A LOT BUT THEIR INACTION IN GOVERNMENT IS CLEARLY SEEN BY THE STATE OF POOR UNHEALTHY SANITATION IN GHANA...
  
  SHAME..NDC SHAME.
  
  GHANA IS SO DIRTY IT SUCKS...JUST GO TO THE BACK OF OSU CASTLE, LABADI, CAPE COAST, TADI, ACCRA, ACCRA, ACCRA. TAMALE, BAWKU AND BACK TO ACCRA
  
  I HAVE NEVER SEEN GHANA IN SUCH DANGEROUSLY POOR DIRTY CONDITION AS THIS NDC ERA...
  
  LAZY DIRTY NDC POLITICIANS CAN NOT EVEN DEAL WITH RUBBISH; WHAT ELSE...
  
  NDC MEANS FILTH, RUBBISH, DIRTY, POOR SANITATION, OPEN DEFACATION, STENCH, SQUALOR AND MORE STENCH
  
  NDC IS FULL OF DIRTY PEOPLE WITH NO CLASS
  
  LED BY CHILDREN OF PIT LATRINE CARRIERS, YOU WILL THINK THEY CARE BUT NO...ONLY SUVU CARS IS THEIR JOY
  
  IN 100 YEARS, NDC WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH RUBBISH ENVELOPING GHANA
  
  NDC IS 'TIAFI' 'IBIN', KANKAN', 'EFI', 'NKONKO'
  
  MAHAMA-LED NDC GOVERNMENT IS RUBBISH AND STINKING ROTTEN CARCASS
  
  SHAME ON TALKATIVE NDC GOONS - RUBBISH IS THEIR MARK

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• senior citizen 12 years ago

  solve the little sanitation problems first and stop this senseless venture. there are little things dat needs to be address . they are more important than pegovian tax and carbon tax u want to venture into

  solve the little sanitation problems first and stop this senseless venture. there are little things dat needs to be address . they are more important than pegovian tax and carbon tax u want to venture into

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• Adama d'Gharty, UK 12 years ago

  At least now some sensible Youths are beginning to do what in effect the elders of state adamantly refuse to commit themselves to even admit of its existence - and that is the meance of pollution in Ghana today. The emergence ...
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  At least now some sensible Youths are beginning to do what in effect the elders of state adamantly refuse to commit themselves to even admit of its existence - and that is the meance of pollution in Ghana today. The emergence of various odd industries in Ghana currently creating excessive pollution must be curbed, monitored and kept under control by the government in order to reduce it. Right now in Ghana there is no notable government department clearly responsible for monitoring those groups creating such pollution and hence the lack of some simple form of pollution reduction control mamangement scheme by levying for example. Therefore any such plans proposed now by the Youth must be readily accepted by the central government, introduced in the fight against the meance of environmental pollution in Ghana for the sake of our future generation.

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• Sarfsch 12 years ago

  "Those who say it can't be done should get out of the way of those already doing it" I appreciate this

  "Those who say it can't be done should get out of the way of those already doing it" I appreciate this

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• Eko 12 years ago

  This is deeply sensible; Ghana does have a sanitation problem that is wrecking Ghana and in turn Ghanaians. The idea of accountability to the individual level is worthy. In Japan, a very clean country, recycling is divided no ...
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  This is deeply sensible; Ghana does have a sanitation problem that is wrecking Ghana and in turn Ghanaians. The idea of accountability to the individual level is worthy. In Japan, a very clean country, recycling is divided not just by plastic bottles but by type of plastic bottles, for better recycling. I think for Ghanaians just having public bins and toilets would help urban areas.
  However one note on the issue of waste management for individual homes- the reason that Ghana lags behind somewhat is because there is no zip code system in the country; this makes the logistics of waste management difficult. If I was going to propose a non-existent technology to solve this issue it would be this one; a wireless 'beacon' that advertises a unique IP v 6 address that is permanently assigned to that building. This signal could be picked up by any device with wireless capabilities, including geolocation trackers; and details of this permanent ipv6 address would be added to a central government database. This could be used by rubbish collection vehicles to find homes, and it could be used by delivery vehicles etc....what can I say, I'm a dreamer :-)

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• GYEM 12 years ago

  Dear Eko, I wish we can have a word with you. We believe in your dreams too. Please can we have your email? We wrote this article and our email is gyemgh@gmail.com

  Dear Eko, I wish we can have a word with you. We believe in your dreams too. Please can we have your email? We wrote this article and our email is gyemgh@gmail.com

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