Members of the Parliamentary Select Committee
tour the waste processing plant
Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Accra, Tuesday September 18, 2012
The Accra
Compost & Recycling Plant (ACaRP) has commenced operation at with the
expectation that the plant would deal decisively with the disposal of waste
that have overwhelmed the country particularly Accra, the capital.
Sited at Adjen Kotoku in the Ga West
District in the Greater Accra Region, the multi-million plant is expected to
recycle 1000 tons of waste.
The Managing Director of the
company, Owura K. Sarfo explained to media and the Parliamentary Select
Committee on Local Government and Rural Development on a tour of the facility that
ACaRP is an integrated waste processing and recycling company established to
collect, sort, process and recycle solid and liquid waste and produce organic
manure for agriculture.
“The ultra modern waste treatment
facility is expected to treat between 45 to 50 per cent of the daily waste
collected from the Accra metropolis and
transported to landfill sites.”
According to him the plant has
been built to address the problem of plastic waste through sorting, collection,
processing and recycling as well as the focal point for training and
research in the provision of effective waste processing.
Mr. Sarfo pointed out
that the plant development was currently in its first phase and
occupied an 80-acre land is expected to also house in due course, a major
plastic processing plant that would be set up.
The Managing Director who is a waste
expert integrated solid waste management system is the solution for Accra’s
sanitation problems and the ACaRP is seriously employing other ways to recover,
recycle and reuse waste.
Commenting on its benefits Mr. Sarfo
hinted the ultra modern solid waste treatment facility when fully completed
would provide about 500 job opportunities with other thousands of employment
opportunities through the supply chain.
“The facility will improve on
sanitation by reducing health hazards created by the present practice of
anarchic dumping of waste in the open, causing regular drainage blocked
channels resulting in fatal flooding,” he noted.
Mr. Sarfo emphasized that the
facility would provide more efficient and effective means of recovering
recyclable materials to sustain indigenous recycling companies with raw
materials and compost for agronomic purposes to help cut down the importation
of soil conditioners (inorganic) into the country.
The Chairman of the Parliamentary
Select Committee on Local Government and Rural Development, Dominic Azinbe
Azumah, was impressed at the level of work and expressed optimism that the
completion of the plant would witness a remarkable improvement in sanitation
within Accra and its environs.
He assured the management that the
Committee would pressure government to release the remaining grant for the
completion of the project.
1 comment:
The Policy about composting is the best idea. But the success of any compost project will depend largely on the effective collection of segregated food wastes (raw/cooked) from target locations like restaurants, chop bars, food depots etc to prevent it from entering the general circulating garbage.
Thiswill also elimnate the labour, light, aircondition required by the Hand sorting department.
Nii Narteh info@pacenewsgh.com
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