Veep inspects ZoomLion Sorting & Composting Plant

The Vice President, John Dramani Mahama, on Tuesday, paid a surprise visit to inspect a multi-million sorting and composting facility being put up by waste management giants, ZoomLion Ghana Limited, at Adjenkotoku, a suburb of Accra.

Mr. Mahama was taken round the company by the Chief Executive Officer of ZoomLion Ghana, Mr. Siaw Agyapong

The facility, which is about 90% complete, will have the capacity to pelletise recovered plastics to be sold to end-users for the manufacture of plastic items such as plastic chairs, carpets, bowls and many others.

The facility is also expected to produce compost or organic fertiliser to feed local farmers to support the production of food for human consumption.

The plant would be able to process 300 tonnes of waste in an eight-hour shift, and will have a sorting and buy-back centre, where several people can be engaged in the recovery of useful materials to serve many other uses.

Directly and indirectly, the establishment of this sorting and composting centre would provide employment to several hundreds of youths, especially, those within the immediate environs of the facility.

Owners of the facility, after the presidential tour, said frantic efforts were in the pipeline to expand the centre to include recycling and liquid waste treatment plants in the shortest possible time.

They called for government partnership, since the facility was cost and labour intensive.

Mr. Mahama speaking to journalists, after inspecting the facility, said he was impressed with what he saw, and promised that the government would consider the proposal being put up by owners of the facility in good faith.

He said the project, which is currently on a pilot basis, would be replicated in other major cities such as Kumasi, Takoradi and Tamale, where generation of garbage is very high.