ZOOMLION LAUNCHES SANITATION EDUCATION PROJECT (PAGE 30)

Story: Kwame Asiedu Marfo, Takoradi

Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a waste management company, has launched a waste collection and public education project in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis to enhance the effective management of solid waste in the metropolitan area.
As part of the project the company has provided the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly with a refuse collection truck mounted with a public address system at a cost of $19,500.
The truck will be used for door-to-door collection of refuse, while the public address system will be used to educate the general public on the need to keep the environment clean and other sanitation-related issues.
The programme will be extended to other metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies in the Western Region, as well as other parts of the country.
At the launch of the project in Sekondi, the Western Regional Operations Manager of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Mr Felix Boankrah, said the assembly would pay GH¢325 a month for five years to defray the cost.
He explained that the company would carry out maintenance work on the trucks, while the assemblies would bear the cost of fuel.
Mr Boankrah said the health of the people was of concern to the company and that it would help the people and the government to ensure the effective management of solid waste in the country.
The Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Co-ordinating Director, Mr Clement Danduri, noted that everybody generated waste but it was nobody’s responsibility to ensure the disposal of the waste.
He said sanitation affected the health of the people, as well as productivity, and that “if the people were sick there would be no productivity”.