By Hauwa Ali
Ghana’s Zoomlion, the company that manages waste in Ghana, is preparing to inaugurate the Bono solid waste recycling project in which about 400 tonnes of solid waste per day can be recycled into fertiliser for agriculture or biogas.
The current level of progress is estimated to be at 95% an will be fully operational in August 2022.
The completed facilities are the composite unit, the medical waste unit, the administration block changing rooms and the power plant, which will be located on a 50-hectare site.
“All that remains is to lay the tiles on the medical waste side,” says Esther Abayeta Asadoo, Zoomlion’s Regional Director (Bono).
The Bono plant will take in waste collected from the districts of Dormaa, Berekum, Wamfie, etc. and will also create about 50 direct jobs and 1,000 indirect jobs for Ghanaian youths.
The construction of the Bono recycling plant is one of a series of projects being implemented by the Ghanaian government to recover solid waste.
Recall that Ghana had announced opening of a new e-waste recycling centre in Accra, on 31 October 2022, the capital of Ghana.
The initiative under the National Integrated E-waste Management Programme aims to reduce the environmental impact in the country, ensure the transition of e-waste through appropriate and sound procedures, test a pricing or financing mechanism.