{"id":10317,"date":"2020-07-13T12:07:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T09:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10317"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:09","slug":"new-project-launches-to-tackle-africas-plastic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/07\/13\/new-project-launches-to-tackle-africas-plastic-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"New Project Launches to Tackle Africa\u2019s Plastic Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts from around the world are joining forces to tackle plastic pollution in Africa\u00a0using the latest digital innovations, thanks to a new research project led by De Montfort University Leicester (DMU).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;project&nbsp;called&nbsp;\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/ditch-plastic.org\/\">Digital&nbsp;Innovations for&nbsp;Transitioning to a Circular Plastic Economy (DITCh&nbsp;Plastic)<\/a>\u2018,&nbsp;has been launched to&nbsp;help&nbsp;design a framework that will enable Africa to transition to a circular plastic economy.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By bringing together the&nbsp;continent\u2019s&nbsp;leading&nbsp;innovation and technology hubs and universities,&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;third sector&nbsp;organisations&nbsp;and top UK universities,&nbsp;researchers&nbsp;hope to develop&nbsp;what is known as a&nbsp;sustainable&nbsp;\u2018closed loop\u2019 system&nbsp;in Africa&nbsp;whereby plastic materials flow constantly through the economy, rather than being used once and discarded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to United Nations figures from 2010 4.4 million tonnes of plastic are found in oceans and seas surrounding the continent every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mohamed Atani, regional information officer for the UN environmental agency UNEP&nbsp;&nbsp;said recently that \u201cplastic, and waste management&nbsp;in general, is a very big problem in Africa.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While several western nations still issue plastic bags in supermarkets, a number of\u00a0\u00a0African countries have taken the lead and banned them entirely, such as Morocco, Rwanda and Kenya. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voice-online.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/2020\/07\/12\/new-project-launches-to-tackle-africas-plastic-pollution\/#.Xwv3uIbrAaY.whatsapp\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts from around the world are joining forces to tackle plastic pollution in Africa\u00a0using the latest digital innovations, thanks to a new research project led by De Montfort University Leicester&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}