The Research and Engagement Officer at Lancaster University Ghana, Mr. N-yelkabong Anthony, has called for a collaborative effort to tackle waste in Ghana.
He argued that the country has not done much considering the fight against filth.
“Clearing waste out of the system, I can say we are not doing as we should; we try to do waste management,” he posited.
According to him, what the country should do is to possibly go beyond managing waste and transform waste products into reusable elements, such as drinking bottles, among several others.
He disclosed that a number of agents visit dumping locations and transport garbage back to where it was first formed; hence, recycling it for a beneficial purpose is the best approach.
“So what possibly may be good is to go into recycling of whatever we have because we have a lot of things that we can do to bring the waste back to its sources.” There is a saying that waste is not waste until it is finally wasted. “If we don’t get to the final stage of the waste, we don’t have to throw it away,” he emphasized.
Furthermore, Mr. N-yelkabong enlisted the support of government and non-governmental organisations by providing financial assistance to waste managers so that they can effectively deliver on their mandate.
He also urged the Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies to enforce bye laws, penalizing those who destroy the environment and rewarding those who protect it.
Mr. N-yelkabong made the revelations during an engagement with the the media on Friday in Accra.
