
Burkina Faso’s botched policy increases plastic waste, kills livestock, forces importers to use sunlight to detect biodegradable plastic.
Despite the ban on non-biodegradable plastic importation and manufacture, the government has granted 918 import exemption certificates since 2015 By Issouf Tapsoba February 22, 2024. 9:00am Photo shows a reserved area transformed into a garbage dump. It illustrates the magnitude of the production of plastic waste from the population/Issouf Tapsoba, on January 20, 2024, for…