Burning waste can cause impotency in men-Director, Waste Management,AMA

Director of Waste Management at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly(AMA), Engineer Solomon Adjei has disclosed that burning waste can cause impotency in men.

This, according to him, will be dire for the development of the country if the government fails to ban the use of single-use plastics and their attendant burning.

Most threatening is the productive male workforce which he said will be risked in with the inhalation of carcinogenic gases. This, he said was the outcome of research conducted by a Professor at the University of Ghana, Professor Chris Gordon on the implications of the inhalation of carcinogenic gases on male sexuality. According to him, the research conducted by a Professor Chris Gordon who is with the University of Ghana has indicated that dioxide and carcinogenic gases which are churned into the atmosphere and when inhaled in bits can get to an "effective stage" where one could suffer from lung challenges. Engineer Adjei maintained that the best way to go is to consider what he termed a pragmatic way of handling waste. Given that, he is suggesting that government should invest in facilities to aid in the intermediate treatment of waste before the final disposal. He also called on the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) and the Ministry of Environment Science and Technology and Innovation(MESTI) to as a matter of urgency to raise the law preventing producers of carrier bags to increase the microns. He said this will enable the carrier bags to be converted into other forms of use. Waste incineration which most hospitals are using, he said, is a crude way of burning waste that continues to churn dangerous carcinogenic gases into the atmosphere. He said that the inhalation of such gases can lead to terminal diseases and lung problems. Finally, he urged appropriate institutions to take steps in banning single-use plastics.