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Ga South to establish waste recycling plant under 1D1F

Lack of proper sanitation management systems remain one of the reasons most metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies continue to grapple with filth in their various jurisdictions.

Date Created : 4/11/2018 5:44:01 AM : Story Author : Dominic Shirimori/Theresa Workartey/Ghanadistricts.com

With increase in daily waste generation, couple with new forms of wastes including increase in none degradable materials requires a new approach to waste management particularly scientific methods if any remarkable achievement is to be made in the fight against insanitary environmental conditions in our various cities and towns.

The newly created Ga South Municipal Assembly however would not want to go the same way other Assemblies are struggling with filth and has therefore decided on what to do to avoid the unfortunate spectacle of filth all around.

The Municipal Chief Executive for the new municipality, Joseph Nyarni Stephen who obviously is not new to the nuisance caused by filth having presided over affairs in the old Ga South, now Weija Gbawe Municipal Assembly has disclosed to ghanadistricts.com that the Assembly would take advantage of Government’s policy of “one district, one factory” to build a waste recycling plant that will help solve the waste management problem as well as create jobs for the youth in the municipality.

The MCE disclosed that the Chief of Ashalaja, Nii Akwanor IV has given 50 acres of land to the Ga South Municipal Assembly towards the implementation of the “one district, one factory” (1D1F) policy and part of that land is intended to be used for the establishment of the waste management plant in the municipality.

The Municipality which forms part of the 38 newly created MMDA’s in the region and the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) Joseph Nyarni Stephen who was transferred from Weija Gbawe Municipal Assembly to Ga South Municipal Assembly has disclosed the need for proper waste management.

When ghanadistricts.com spoke with some of residents around for their views on the establishment of the recycling plant, they expressed delight at the news.

Mr. Nyarni Stephen added that the new assembly is currently in a rented premises but hoped they move to their own office complex by the end of the year, adding that as a new assembly they have quite a number of challenges in the area of finances but hope to overcome it in due course.