Ghana Announces Improvements In Waste Program

Written by Ann Brown

Nov 24, 2013

The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Zoomlion, on Friday launched a national waste segregation program to encourage separation of wastes at source.

The program, supported by the two giants in waste management in Ghana – Zoomlion Ghana Limited and Jekora Ventures, was to promote clean environments as well as lessen the burden of diseases on the people.

The program would be implemented country-wide and the first phase would commence in some selected schools and within the ministries area in Accra.

Under the programme, three types of waste bins would be given to each institution within the ministries and the selected schools in Accra.

One of the bins would contain paper, another plastics and the last one would contain food waste.

Dr Joe Otteng Adjei, the sector Minister, in a speech read for him, said the launch was a fulfillment of Government’s national environmental policy and a major step in addressing the solid waste menace in the country.

He said source waste segregation was an efficient and environmentally sustainable way of managing waste and it would also help reduce the amount of waste to be land filled as well as provide additional value from secondary raw materials which could be recycled into useful products to support economic development.