Coca-Cola, Nestlé Won’t Solve Ghana’s Plastic Waste Problem With Recycling
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-coca-cola-nestle-west-africa-ghana-plastic-waste-recycling
… the country is being hailed as a success story, thanks to a corporate-sponsored cleanup. The event in Swedru was organized by the Ghana Recycling Initiative by Private Enterprises (#GRIPE), a coalition of international companies that has won plaudits for its recycling efforts in a nation without much formal waste collection.
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Yet the amount of actual recycling happening in Ghana remained stubbornly low. Although reliable data is scant, less than 0.1% of plastic is recycled in Ghana, according to a 2020 report by the European Commission. The paper’s authors noted that GRIPE had an “active social media presence” but that “little high-impact results have been achieved so far.” GRIPE’s activities were coordinated by a single full-time employee working from the offices of the Association of Ghana Industries.
Aziz says her experiences with GRIPE left her disillusioned about its commitment to real change. Her organization, Environment360, no longer works much with the private sector, she says, because of her concerns about greenwashing: the label given to corporate activity that appears to be environmentally friendly, but in practice has minimal or negative impact.
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