In 2025 EndPlasticSoup, jointly with Ummy Relief Foundation and other partners, will organize the first African Plastic Summit in Accra, Ghana for Advancing Solutions for Plastic Waste Management in Africa. Plastic waste management has become a critical issue across Africa, where rapid urbanization and increasing plastic consumption have led to significant environmental and health challenges.…
How clothing impacts climate change:
Clothes cause 35% of the microplastics in our environment. We need more awareness of the impact of synthetic clothes and what we can do about it.
Eco-Plastic Week Celebration Theme: “EndPlasticSoup Now!” Tamale, Ghana 10-16 June 2024 Organization: Ummy Relief Foundation in partnership with Technology Without Borders and Rotary EndPlasticSoup West Africa Contact: Abdul Rashid Wumpini Alhassan The Eco-Plastic Week is dedicated to raising awareness about plastic pollution and promoting sustainable practices. Through a series of engaging activities, we aim to…
Rotaract Club Tamale (Ghana) in partnership with the Ummy Relief Foundation, Technology Without Borders and Rotary EndPlasticSoup will start the project to tackle waste management challenges while promoting sustainable agriculture and community development. Through a five-year initiative, we envision transforming waste into valuable resources and fostering environmental stewardship in the community.
In February Dr Ralf Hardenberg, EndPlasticSoup Ambassador of Rotary Club of Nürnberg-Connect, Germany, visited Ghana. He was excited to volunteer for a medical project at a hospital in Nkawkaw, Ghana, and saw plastic everywhere. Thousands of black disposable plastic bags, small plastic water sachets, plastic bottles – even littering the hospital grounds. Plastic never goes…
A step by step approach: Expanding our school Project. First step is to extend education via Rotaract Clubs, focus on whole of Ghana, and start collection of food waste and plastic, and support school gardens: budget is required to provide T-shirts. Visits to Rotary, Rotaract and Interact Clubs to speak to them about Rotary EndplasticSoup…
Our Ambassador Rotaract Tamale organized education, awareness and cleanup actions for schools in the city of Tamale in North Ghana. In August they started with 5 schools, so about 150 young children, age below 15. The School Project will continue the education and awareness regarding plastic pollution in 2024: 10 Schools, 30 Student per School…