AMA decommissions two landfill sites
Two landfill sites which have become environmental hazards to some residents in Accra have been decommissioned by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA).
Two other sites are also planned for closure as the AMA seeks more scientific and environmentally-friendly means of managing the 2,200 tonnes of waste generated by the city of Accra daily.
The AMA said that a reclamation programme would begin in mid-November aimed at turning the landfill sites back into usable land for the benefit of the community. So far $300,000 has been released by the World Bank for the project which has already been awarded on contract.
Accra's Mayor, Alfred Okoe Vanderpuje, led a delegation to the Malam and Oblogo landfill sites to decommission them and hinted that the AMA would now reorient all its waste to a compost plant commissioned by Zoomlion, a major stakeholder in Ghana's waste management business.
The company is currently constructing a $40m material recovery facility which will eventually receive a substantial portion of the waste generated in the capital city and its environs thereby minimizing the volume of waste to be sent to the disposal site.
The Zoomlion sorting and composting plant, located in the Adjen Kotoku community near Medie on the Accra Nsawam Road, will not only turn the organic component of the waste, which is estimated to be between 60 and 70%, into good quality compost for agricultural and horticultural purposes but will also recover other materials such as metals and plastics to be recycled for other uses.
The facility has the capacity to pelletize the recovered plastics to be sold to end-users for the manufacture of plastic items such as plastic chairs, carpets, bowls amongst others.
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