Members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government and Rural Development were full of praises for waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana limited after they visited the company’s newly commissioned Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant (iReCop) at the Accra Waste Recovery Park.
The plant which is installed to recover over 90% of all kinds of waste and create over 5,000 jobs in the waste management value chain was commissioned about a week ago and incorporated into government’s popular policy of One District, One Factory (1D1F).
Led by the Committee Chairman and MP for Akim-Oda, William Agyapong, the committee members showered praises on the Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyapong and owner of Zoomlion Ghana Limited.
The MPs, however, urged Zoomlion to find ways of separating the waste to ensure that the organic compost the plant produces is plastic free.
They requested that the plant should be replicated in the various regions and the densely populated constituencies.
During the commissioning, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong indicated that based on the conclusion of a research conducted by his outfit on a pilot basis on source separation waste, Ghana was not ready for source separation of waste as they were beginning to now understand why waste must be collected and managed.
He said it was for this reason that he decided to use innovation so as to create a plant that can receive all kinds of waste and yet be able to separate them and process for human use economically.
Dr. Agyepong, however, gave the assurance that his outfit was doing everything possible through public education to conscientize Ghanaians to be able to adapt to the waste source separation.
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By: citinewsroom.com | Ghana