Fighting solid & liquid waste…

‘We must change our attitude’

Renowned US environmentalist and Chairman of the Captain Planet Foundation, Laura Turner, has challenged stakeholders in the environment in Ghana to adopt best attitudinal practices  in the fight against waste management  and the preservation of the environment.

According to her, waste management is more of an attitudinal problem than what the public usually think and, called for hands-on-approach to the eradication of solid and liquid waste in the country.

Laura Turner Seydel who assisted in launching the Planeteer Movement of Ghana in October 2012, made the call at the first stakeholder dialogue held by the Planeteers Movement of Ghana, a subsidiary of the Captain Planet Foundation, as part of activities marking her four-day visit to the country.

The stakeholders’ forum brought together all the institutions and people who matter in the protection of the environment.

The Planeteer Movement of Ghana, a non-governmental organisation, is founded on the tenets espoused in the hugely popular Captain Planet Series committed to promoting and supporting programmes that enable children and youth to understand and appreciate our world through learning experiences.

She remarked that ‘the message of the Planeteers is that we combine our powers to achieve greater results.

There is no way that you know the words of the captain Planet song and not know about serious environmental issues’ and called on like-minded individuals to start practising the right behaviours. We must all spread the message about protecting our environment in our won small way’.

President of the Rotary Club of Accra Airport Foundation, Kwasi Atuah, remarked that ‘it is time we gave back to the very environment that sustained our very livelihood, adding that the environment should be put in the category of our national security.  We must commit ourselves to the defence of our resources by giving support where it is needed and Rotary is proud to be working together with the Planeteers to make the environment a better place for us all.’

Commenting on creating partnerships to stop the fight against the environment, President of the Rotary Club of Accra Airport, Vivian Abbey, called on institutions to come on board stressing that ‘the fight to protect the environment cannot be done by one or two institutions.

It demands a joint effort from all of us to create a better environment for the generation behind us.”

The stakeholders’ dialogue brought together government bodies, NGOs committed to environmental safety, media, etc.