Do African cities have markets for plastics or plastics for markets?

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Professor Ian Yeboah, and also the referee and the Briefings Editor of ROAPE for helpful feedback on earlier drafts. Notes For instance the recent 64th Annual New Year School – a national forum during which accomplished people in the country are given the opportunity to comment on pressing issues of national development – focused on questions of sanitation, hygiene and water, with plastic waste as a key subtopic. Interview with CEO of Davnak Ventures, Takoradi (24 January 2013). An alternative means of assessing how much money is due to collectors or pickers is by weighing the bags of sachets they collect. By this means, some 9 kg of sachets is worth GH1.80 (interview with a plastics purchasing agent). This by-law took effect on 1 April 2011 (see Bokpe 2013). New Ghana cedis (1,000,000 old Ghana = 100 New Ghana cedis [GH]; 1 GH is approximately US$0.7). Note, though, that in the same minutes, the Accra mayor seems to count private management of the 'waste to energy project' as a 'benefit'.