Government has served notice of a ban on the use of wood for school furniture as a means to reduce the felling of trees.
Speaking at the World Environment Day celebrations in Kwabenya in Accra, on Thursday, June 5, the President Mahama outlined a number of environmental reforms to be instituted by government to protect Ghana’s forests and tackle plastic pollution.
The President noted alternative means such as the use of metal or recycle plastic for school furniture rather than wood.
“We can’t be planting trees and cutting them down at the same time and so to reduce the cutting of trees, it is my intention to issue a directive to stop the use of wood for school furniture. We are soon going to pass a directive so that school furniture will no longer be made of wood so that we can stop the cutting down of trees.
“We will either use recycle plastic for our school furniture or we will use metal for our school furniture,” the President said.
President Mahama also disclosed plans by his government to phase out the use of Styrofoam for food packaging, noting that it is one of the biggest polluters in the country.
“One of the other things we intend to do is to ban Styrofoam as a food packing material. We are going to ban the importation of Styrofoam plastics. We have to use paper plastics or aluminum foil for packing our food. ”
The World Environment Day 2025 was marked under the theme “Restore Our Earth: From Words to Action,” with President Mahama calling on all sectors to support national efforts to build a greener and more sustainable Ghana.
