RiverRecycle Oy, in collaboration with Beach Clean-up Ghana Ltd and Ambitious Africa, is implementing river cleaning technology to collect plastic waste in the Kpeshi Lagoon, engaging the local community in a land-based collection system and creating value for the plastic waste collected by utilising the waste as feedstock for mechanical recycling.
Manufacturing pollution in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia Implications for the environment, health and future work A scoping study was commissioned by the SMEP programme at the inception of the initiative to lay the foundational base for understanding the consequences of environmental degradation caused by manufacturing industries in these two regions. Despite acknowledging limitations in
UNCTAD and Instituto 17 created an interactive dashboard which combines economic, trade and product life-cycle analysis, to provide governments and industry actors with key export pollution data for manufacturing sectors in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
A concise visual summary of the SEI baseline report’s findings for Sub-Saharan Africa (Senegal, Nigeria, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana)
A visual summary of the SMEP Programme’s focal manufacturing sectors and key pollutants arising from the SEI baseline report’s findings.
The SMEP programme aims to improve upon the existing knowledge of the environmental and health impacts of manufacturing across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and to develop solutions that address complex technical challenges in this area.