Adidome-Sogakope Zonal Director of EPA calls for protection of the environment

By Stanley Awalime

Sogakope (V/R), June 7, GNA- Mr Maxwell Zu-Cudjoe, the Sogakope Area Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has called on the public to contribute their quota to the protection of the environment since its sustainability needs a collective responsibility.

He said the environment had been exposed to a lot of challenges that bothered sustainability and if not addressed early could leave rippling effects on all occupants of Mother Earth.

Mr Zu-Cudjoe, who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview mentioned the June 5, set aside by the United Nations as the World Environment Day, aimed to commemorate and highlight issues of the environment.

“Climate change, Waste management, Deforestation among others are issues of the environment that need urgent attention, he said.”

The Sogakope Area Director added that Plastic Waste Pollution and Global warming had been on the increase, and it had become necessary to inculcate the attitude of waste segregation among the youth.

“What someone might call waste might be a resource to someone else, just as it's being said that one man’s poison is another man’s meat,” he said.

He said the Sogakope Area Office had donated dustbins to selected schools around North, South and Central Tongu, Anloga, Akatsi-South and Keta Municipalities to inculcate the attitude of waste Segregation in pupils.

Mr Zu-Cudjoe called on all stakeholders to help mobilize resources to address issues endangering the environment since the protection of the Environment had become a collective responsibility.

This year’s world environment day has been on the theme “Beat Plastic Pollution.”

Plastic pollution can alter habitats and natural processes, reducing ecosystems ability to adapt to climate change, directly affecting millions of livelihoods, food production capabilities and social well-being.

The costs of plastic pollution including environmental clean-up, ecosystem degradation, shorter life expectancy and medical treatment exceeded US$100 Billion per year, according to research on growing global plastics crisis.

GNA