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March 20, 2025
The Managing Director of the Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP) Michael Padi Tuwor said the culture of separating plastic waste from other wastes is catching up well with Ghanaians in the capital.
According to him, in the homes people are separating the plastics waste from other things. But the problem is that it’s only one truck that would usually come for the waste; hence everything that is separated ends up in the same truck. If we have more trucks like the way Zoomlion has and the truck can come twice in a week it will help, because then in the first day in the week it will come for organic materials, and the second day its coming for recyclable things that in a way would have helped; but it’s a gradual process, we are getting there once people get to understand what we call waste is not a waste but resource.
He affirmed that there is value in waste and people will keep it and sale, stating that these days people wait for you at events to finish drinking just so they can pick the empty bottles because they know there is value in it. “That is where we are heading to, and for us that is what we expect into the future”, he added.
The ACARP MD further noted that Jospong Group has introduced campaigns on free dustbins and one million free dustbins to households, just so to store the waste.
He asserts that per our by-laws the polluter has a responsibility, once you generate the waste you are to store it; once it is lifted the responsibility and liability is transferred to the government, that is why you are charged for the lifting. When it comes to the downstream treatment and disposal that is when the government also comes in and its paid for, he added.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com