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March 20, 2025
As Ghana leads in the crusade of addressing waste menace in the system in Africa and the West Africa sub-region, Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP), a subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Companies is attracting some countries from both Africa and the sub-region to understudy its operation and replicate same in their respective countries.
A tour by members of the Parliamentary Press Corps (PPC) to ACARP on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, saw a high-powered delegation from Ethiopia visiting the facility.
Managing Director of the Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP) Michael Padi Tuwor in an interview noted that after ten, fifteen, and twenty years, the Jospong Group is stepping out as they have invested and built capacity.
“We have built enough resources and replicating this in Africa and the West Africa sub-region. We are in Nigeria Lagos, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Guinea Conakry and Liberia”.
Almost every week they have a country visiting their facility to learn what they are doing.
Mr. Michael Padi further pointed out that their mandate is to receive waste generated in the capital from respective homes, marketplaces, among others. And when they are brought to their facility their duty is to recover as much as they can from the waste, add value to it, and send it back into the system for re-use.
“The organic component of the waste, because the waste that we generate is not separated at source, it is mixed, that is the reason for all the investment you see here. So, when the waste comes here, we use the MRF that is the material recovery facility, to recover the various fractions like organic fractions, the plastics, card boards and scrap metals.”
“We add value to these ones – the organic we turn it into compost for agriculture purposes, all the plastics we process into pellets and then also give it out to the plastic manufacturing companies for further production into Household items.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com