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...
Waste management firm, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has refuted claims it has refused to collect waste for disposal within the central business district of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Earlier reports...
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...
The level of household waste which is recycled in the UK has fallen for the first time, figures have shown. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs statistics show that 44.3% of...
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 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...
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...
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...
The incarceration of the Montie trio is appropriate, hence the President must disregard the petition to pardon them, a former Minister of Trade and Industry in the erstwhile Kufuor administration,...
I reside at Kings Town within Kpomitey-Amanfro area under the Ga South Municipal. There are no good roads and well constructed gutters in the area. The roads are completely pot-holes making it...
Osu cemetery, one of the final resting places in the city for the dead, has currently been turned into a defecation and dumping site.
In an interview, Mr William Totimeh, the sexton at the cemetery,...
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...
The Shame of Lavender Hill -Accra's Greatest Shame
Poor sanitation and the inefficient human waste disposal has always been a problem in Accra, Ghana's largest city.
It is not uncommon to see storm...
Takoradi which prides itself with the accolade the ‘Best Comes from the West’ is gradually loosing this pride to nothing, but filth, due to the inability of the city authorities to manage the...
