Waste infrastructure has failed to keep up with Ghana's economic growth, leaving its capital (Accra) drowning in plastic trash. Streets and waterways in Accra and other urban areas in Ghana are regularly inundated with single-use plastics — including shopping bags, pure water plastic bags, plastic takeaway food boxes, and water/soda bottles.

In lieu of formal recycling operations, waste pickers collect litter and sell it to middlemen, who aggregate plastic waste and sell it to recyclers abroad. With a five percent recycling rate, Ghana has emerged as a regional front runner, committed to creating a domestic recycling industry that protects both the environment and the impoverished ...

It seems surprising that a country as poor as Ghana - where the average monthly income per family is only $110 - collects this many electronics. "In almost all cases, E-Waste is not a local product, but originates from developed countries", says Labunska, The harbor of Accra receives 600 to 1,000 containers every month, adds Ananes.

2. Methods. This article reviews the open dumping and open burning of waste, main practices implemented for waste treatment and disposal in developing countries, involving many environmental and health impacts [30,31,32].Such unsustainable practices include every waste fraction, such as MSW, HW, construction & demolition (C&D) waste, used tires, WEEE, used batteries, and …

Reliable national data on waste generation and composition that will inform effective planning on waste management in Ghana is absent. To help obtain this data on a regional basis, selected s in each region were recruited to obtain data on rate of waste generation, physical composition of waste, sorting and separation efficiency and per capita of waste.

Over the years, urban solid waste disposal has become a major problem to the Techiman Municipal Assembly and ineffective solid waste collection, transportation, sanitation related diseases and inadequate resources to help curb the waste menace in a more sustainable manner in Ghana and the urban areas especially the study area.

Ghana, as a developing African country, faces challenges with solid waste management. The rapid increase in population, urbanization and industrialization has resulted in accelerated solid waste ...

Stylized facts. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was already facing challenges in the waste management sector, where over two billion people lack access to waste collection whereas over three billion people lack access to waste disposal (UN-Habitat 2020).Hence, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and its corresponding social distancing measures amplify the already burdened …

E-waste contaminants have the potential to produce deleterious effects on the behavior, physiology, metabolism, reproduction,development and growth of many aquatic organisms. Because it is confirmed that both heavy metal and organic contaminants are reaching the biota of Ghana's local waterways, we presume that they are producing adverse effects.

both Ghana and the rest of the world. It has been established that burning of fossil fuel, mainly coal, oil and gas has led to global warming. In Ghana, Tullow Oil was permitted to flare a total amount of 75 million standard cubic feet of gas daily in July 2015 due to the breakdown of …

This article assesses the performance of the city of Accra, Ghana, in municipal solid waste management as defined by the integrated sustainable waste management framework. The article reports on a participatory process to socialise the Wasteaware benchmark indicators and apply them to an upgraded set of data and information.

An Assessment of Traffic Congestion and Its Effect on Productivity in Urban Ghana Takyi Harriet Department of Sociology and Social Work Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana. Kofi Poku Department of Marketing and Corporate Strategy School of Business Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana.

The environmental impact of construction contributes to global warming. Construction projects emit large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane. Infrastructure developments cause pollution and produce waste. As the output of the construction industry multiplies, so can its damaging effects.

Coliba is the leading Ghanaian Plastic Waste Recycling Company, Committed to The Environment.Coliba Recycling seeks to innovatively address the plastic waste pollution in the West Africa region through a franchise model that integrates Coliba Rangers (Waste pickers) into the digital platform that enables homes, institutions and communities start and request recycling services with click of the ...

environmental effects of sewage pollution and wastewater effluent quality assessment: a case study of tema metropolis, ghana by akua akwaah marfo (10395378) this thesis is submitted to the university of ghana, legon in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of master of philosophy in environmental science degree . july, 2014

Ghana has made progress in the formulation and implementation of SD strategies since the Rio conference.. ... above all ensure efficient and effective management of resources to avoid waste. This will serve as a signal for donor commitment to pledges. Above all, there is the need for the country to begin a serious transformation of ...

Some of the catastrophic effects of today's poor waste management systems are listed below: 1. Soil Contamination. Ideally, we would like our plastic, glass, metal and paper waste to end up at a recycling facility. It then returns to us as a renewable product. But the reality is entirely different. Have a look at the informative image below.

Solid waste disposal in the Developed World (Cheeseman, 2011). Waste Research. In Ghana, research in the waste management sector has been largely motivated by a concern for public sector reform rather than finding appropriate and sustainable technological solutions to the mounting problems of waste management.

to investigate the potential of using waste and low energy materials for domestic construction, principally in Ghana. The objective of this research is to experiment on the use of coconut fibres as an enhancement of concrete. Coconut fibres are not commonly used in the construction industry but are often discarded as wastes.

According to Cardoso (2005), typical negative impacts. of the construction activities include waste production, mud, dust, soil and wa ter. contamination and damage to public drainage systems ...

construction have depleted overall performance and productivity of the industry, and certain serious measures have to be taken to rectify the current situation (Aziz and Hafez, 2013). It has been contended by the Lean Construction Institute (2014) that about 57% of productive time waste can be found in the construction industry.

The Ghana Ltd/Waste Management Department estimated that about 0.45kg of Solid waste is generated in the town per person per day. About 90% of this waste is said to come from domestic sources. Considering the current estimated population (4943) of Saboba, this provides us with a total daily waste generation of 2.224 tonnes.

1 Improper waste disposal; Improper waste disposal in the coastal areas has been a culture of so many in developing and underdeveloped countries. The case of Ghana is not different as communities ...

Ghana's government passed a local content law in 2013 that requires a minimum 5 percent equity stake in hydrocarbon exploration and production activities. A local-content policy framework from 2010 has largely been met in terms of management positions and general staff, but technical positions are where the progress has been slowest.

18 Causes, Effects & Solutions for Waste ... Additionally, the construction of new landfills may impact the environmental surroundings in an adverse way. Also, people who are living close to landfills are complaining about smoke, flies, odors and noise and thus are impacted in a negative way.

The design, construction and operation of the buildings are putting increasing stress on the energy, water and sanitation systems, the materials used in the construction process, the landfills used as a repository for the waste generated by the building and demolition activities, and on the land itself.

The comparative analysis of solid waste management between rural and urban Ghana is largely lacking. This study investigated the solid waste situation and the organisation of solid waste management in both urban and rural settings from the perspective of s. The study employed cross-sectional survey covering both rural and urban districts in the Ashanti and Greater Accra Regions of Ghana.

waste in the country that will used by STWASPA for its advocacy. This report provides the findings of the study. The report discusses the legal and regulatory frameworks for solid waste management in Ghana. It also highlights the amount and sources of plastic waste in Ghana and discusses the options for sustainable plastic waste management in ...

In Ghana, for example, GPAP is working with technology giant SAP to create a group of more than 2,000 waste pickers and measuring the quantities and types of plastic that they collect. This data is then analysed alongside the prices that are paid throughout the value chain by buyers in Ghana and internationally.

As construction activities significantly impact on waste, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions (Wallace, 2005), sustainability has increasingly become important from a project delivery point of view. Consequently, there has been pressure for the construction industry to be more accountable for its social and environmental impacts.

Eshun et al. have identified 19 wood waste sources in Ghana, out of them 3 related to the forestry sub system and 16 to the timber industry subsystem. Major sources of wood waste were low quality logs with large defects, bark, off-cuts, sawdust, slabs, and edged trimmings from sawn timber.

Brigden K, Labunska I, Santillo D, Johnston P (2008) Chemical contamination at e-waste recycling and disposal sites in Accra and Koforidua, Ghana. Greenpeace Research Laboratories Technical Note 2008, pp 1–23 Google Scholar. Bryan MD, Atchison GJ, Sandheinrich (1995) Effects of cadmium on the foraging behavior and growth of juvenile ...

1. Introduction. In the year 2000, one of the millennium development goals (MDGs), which Ghana appended to was the promotion of environmental protection and sustainability; However, for well over a decade which has seen the transformation of the MDGs in to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the country is still grappling with the proper disposal and management of its Municipal solid …

The major effects of poor solid waste management in Port-Harcourt city include: blocked drains, flooding, erosion, traffic congestion, soil pollution, air pollution, health problems, unaesthetic dump sites and loss of community pride. Research Objectives: The objectives of this research are as follows: ...

Agbogbloshie in Ghana is a vast urban area that houses a massive e-waste recycling dump. Situated on the banks of the Korle Lagoon alongside the Old Fadama slum, it …