Zoomlion to cover more homes in Northern Region with waste management services
Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a waste management company, is to expand its domestic household waste collection programme to cover more households in the Northern Region as a means to halt indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the region.
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Currently, the company has distributed over 2,500 dustbins to some households and has targeted to distribute 6,000 more across the region in 2016 to improve waste collection and management.
The company has also set up a compost plant at Gbahali, the final waste disposal site for the Tamale metropolis, to turn the waste into organic fertiliser for farmers in the region to help increase their yields and incomes and ensure food security.
Consequently, the company has targeted to produce 3,000 bags of compost for farmers in 2016 at an affordable price to enhance their farming activities.
The Northern Regional General Manager of the Jospong Group and Zoomlion Group of Companies, Mr Emmanuel Volsuuri, disclosed this in an interview with the Daily Graphic at the end-of-year thanksgiving service organised by the company at the Tamale Sports Stadium last Friday.
The end-of-year thanksgiving service was to thank God for how far He had brought the company and also to pray for God's favour and blessings for the coming year.
Sustainable waste management
Mr Volsuuri stated that the company had in place adequate equipment to ensure quality waste management services to its clients in the region.
He noted that the way to go to ensure effective and sustainable waste management in the country was for the government to come up with a regulatory framework for the private sector to provide this critical social service to enhance waste collection and management.
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Mr Volsuuri noted that in other jurisdictions outside Ghana, governments did not have a hand in the provision of sanitation services, as they have been left for the private sector to manage, adding that the way to go was to introduce ‘the polluter pays’ principle, in which the one who generates the waste is made to pay for it.
He called for the strict enforcement of the sanitation bye-laws of the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) and behavioural change to check the menace of indiscriminate dumping of refuse across the country.
The Tamale Area Head of the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Nii Kodjo Djan, who delivered the sermon, urged the workers to eschew all negative practices and work hard for the improvement of sanitation in the region.
He also urged them to be thankful to God always for giving them life to work to take care of their families.
Donation
As part of activities to mark the day and also its social responsibility, the company donated food items, including four bags of rice, canned tomatoes and baby diapers, to the Tamale Children's Home for the upkeep of the children at the home.