I understand your plight but I don’t entirely agree with you. Being academically educated doesn’t necessarily mean you'll follow every instruction easily. They are two different things.
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Of course, we expect people who have several degrees to their name to act in a certain way but such activities come with education — in this case, specialised education.
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Your last sentence is how most countries have been able to imbibe recycling in their culture. In France for example, I was taken through a series of lectures on the importance of #recycling and the role my seemingly little activity could help solve a global problem.
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I was taught which items go into which colour of the dustbin; these colour codes are uniform across the country.
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If we hope to build this in our culture, then we need to start incorporating it in our curriculums as soon as possible, not just placing dustbins randomly and instructing minds that naturally oppose this way of life to obey. That won’t work
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To add up to this thread, here are a few suggestions I think can go a long way to help instil these habits in Ghanaians

1. Make them feel like they are part of solutions. In some of my French classes, we were taught how WATER, PAPER and other stuff are recycled. We were made to visit the recycling site to understand our role in the recycling chain