The German government has unveiled a plan to help Ghana deal with electronic waste at Agbogbloshie, a major dumping site outside of the capital, Accra. The project aims to protect both workers and the environment. Young men busy themselves extracting copper from the dumped electronics and other scrap materials so they can resell what the … Read more
The Water Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is calling for a ban on what it calls “primitive recycling of e-wastes” due to the hazardous chemicals it produces. During an in-house review seminar by the institute on Wednesday, one of its Researchers, Dr Kwadwo Ansong Asante, revealed that carcinogenic compounds … Read more
Listeners of Oman FM’s morning show “National Agenda” were yesterday (Thursday) held spellbound as the radio station played a voice recording suspected to be that of former Environment Minister Mahama Ayariga, where he could be heard negotiating a contract kickback deal. The setting of the suspected kickback deal was a restaurant as cluttering of cutlery … Read more
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 would have been prudent for the National Democratic Congress government to have allowed such new contracts to be handled by the new government. The Minister for … Read more
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 would have been prudent for the National Democratic Congress government to have allowed such new contracts to be handled by the new government. The Minister for Environment, … Read more
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 party’s defeat in the December 7 polls. According to the outgoing Minister, he took the decision because it was duly forwarded to the Public Procurement Authority for … Read more
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 as a relief to traders and other residents of Agbogbloshie market, which has long been a dumping site for electronic waste, thereby, resulting in … Read more
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 facility at Agbogbloshie in the Greater Accra Region. Estimated at US$30million for the first phase, the facility is expected to recycle all waste electrical and electronic equipment to final … Read more
The Friday October 14, 2016 edition of The Chronicle carried a story with the caption, “Nestlé Ghana re-uses 30% of its Treated Waste Water”. According to the story, the Tema factory of Nestlé Ghana Limited, for some time now, has been using 30% of the waste water, which the company generates, to water lawns and … Read more
Germany has earmarked €20 million to support Ghana to set up an electronic waste recycling facility which is one of the interventions to control hazardous and electronic waste in the country. The German Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Christoph Retzlaff, who disclosed this in Accra , said in addition the German government had pledged €5 million … Read more