EPA to intensify public education ahead of styrofoam ban, prioritises voluntary compliance

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) says it will intensify nationwide public education and stakeholder engagement ahead of Ghana's planned ban on single-use styrofoam food packaging, with the aim of achieving voluntary compliance before the policy takes effect on January 1, 2027. Speaking during the eighth edition of the Loud and Green X Spaces, the EPA's Director of Human Settlement, Hope Smith Lomotey, said the Authority has spent years engaging stakeholders across the plastics…