Dr. Edward Asadu
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Asadu Royal Waste Management Company Ltd, Dr. Edward Asadu, has made a passionate appeal to the government to provide a new landfill site for disposal of waste in the Accra Metropolis and its satellite municipalities in the Greater Accra region.
Dr Asadu said a new landfill site was long overdue because the only landfill site at Nsumia in the Ga West municipality has become full and spilling over thereby creating health problems for workers of waste management companies who work at the landfill site and residents of the area.
He said the government must see it as urgent to get a new landfill site for Accra Metropolis and its satellite municipalities because of increased generation of waste in the metropolis coupled with the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We really need a new landfill site since Nsumia landfill site is very full, with the Covid-19 pandemic coming to exacerbate matters,” he said; stressing, workers of waste management companies who operated at the landfill site were at a huge risk of contracting Covid-19 because most of the Covid-19 infected wastes were dumped at the same landfill site.
He said as the government considered providing a new landfill site, the Nsumia landfill site needed to be fumigated regularly to reduce the risk of contracting the disease at the landfill site.
He said the government must also consider building a public recycling plant for waste, particularly in the Greater Accra area, not only to help improve sanitation in the country but also to provide employment and to generate revenue for the country.
The CEO of Asadu Royal Waste Management said the fumigation of public institutions by the government should also be diversified so that all waste companies in Ghana which had the capacity to do fumigation could also benefit.
“We at Asadu Royal Waste Management also have the capacity to fumigate so the government and private individuals can rely on us for fumigation of their premises at a very moderate cost,” he said.
He praised the government for the timely release of money to the waste management companies for the collection of waste in Accra and adjourning areas.
By Thomas Fosu Jnr