Posting title: Support in the preparation, implementation, follow-up and outreach for 1 plastic waste beach clean-up and 3 plastic waste citizen science activities in Ghana
The second workshop of the BRS-NORAD project on marine litter and microplastics in Ghana was held online over a period of four days, 11-14 May, 2020.
Sub-regional workshop to enhance science-policy-industry interaction and to support Parties in science-based decision-making for the implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions
The BCCC-Africa, the BRS Secretariat and the Government of Ghana (through its Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology & Innovation – MESTI) have jointly organised the inception meeting for the plastic waste management project titled “Marine litter and microplastics: promoting the environmentally sound management of plastic wastes and achieving the prevention and minimization of the generation of plastic wastes”.
The 14th Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention on May 10, 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland agreed to include mixed, unrecyclable and contaminated plastic waste exports into the control regime that requires the consent of importing countries before waste exports can proceed.
The Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) which is a public-private collaboration mechanism and project accelerator hosted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), dedicated to bringing about the circular economy at speed and scale, has released a joint report on a new vision for the production and consumption of electronic and electrical goods.

