Government has been urged to formulate enforceable legislations that would ensure that industries and companies would recycle organic waste generated by them. According to Safi Sana Ghana Limited, a...
While the sanitation situation in Ghana’s capital, Accra, seem to be one of the toughest challenges to surmount with very limited waste management ideas and practices, there appear to be a shining...
The waste from discarded electronic gadgets and electrical appliances has reached severe levels in East Asia, posing a growing threat to health and the environment unless safe disposal becomes the...
Dear Hon. Minister: Congratulations on your appointment as the minister of water resources and sanitation! Your work is intricate than meets the eye, and I wish you all the wisdom there is to execute...
The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has criticized the out-going Mahama government’s decision to sign an e-waste contract, days after it lost the general elections. According to the GII, it would...
The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has criticized the out-going Mahama government’s decision to sign an e-waste contract, days after it lost the general elections. According to the GII, it...
The Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahama Ayariga has defended the government’s decision to sign a new waste management contract worth €18 million days after his...
Out-going Environment, Science and Technology minister Mahama Ayariga has defended the signing of an €18m waste management contract days after the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost...
The construction of the US$30 million Agbogbloshie Electronic Waste project in the Greater Accra Region is expected to create over 400,000 direct and indirect jobs in the country. The project comes...
The open-air faecal sewage disposal space commonly known as Lavender Hill in Accra is still operational despite the commissioning of a treatment plant system to replace it. On Friday November 25...
The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency, is set to commence the construction of a state-of-the-art e-waste recycling...
The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency are set to commission the construction of a recycling facility at Agbogbloshie...
One of Accra’s major challenges in solid waste management has been the unavailability of landfills. In the past, waste management companies have had to endure tortuous journeys worsened by hilly...
In the heart of Accra lies Agbobloshie, a sprawling scrapyard once tagged as one of most toxic places on earth. A former wetland, Agbobloshie has become a dumpsite for electronic waste products from...
The Friday October 14, 2016 edition of The Chronicle carried a story with the caption, “Nestlé Ghana re-uses 30% of its Treated Waste Water”. According to the story, the Tema factory of Nestlé...
Ghana’s growing population, especially in urban centres, has over the years translated into the generation of huge amounts of solid waste. With our population estimated to hit approximately 50...
Germany has earmarked €20 million to support Ghana to set up an electronic waste recycling facility which is one of the interventions to control hazardous and electronic waste in the country. The...
It surprises me why none of the political parties is presenting solution to one major problem which is shooting this country to hell in their campaign tour thus, waste management. Well, they cannot...
While old electronics pile up and turn Accra’s neighborhood Agbogbloshie into the most polluted place on earth, international agreements trying to stop the transportation of electronic waste...
The government of Ghana has received funding from the Swiss government and the European Union (EU) to manage electronic waste in Ghana.
These funds are to help the development and implementation of a...
