‘Lavender Hill’ to give way to modern waste treatment site

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

Cesspit Emptiers at the Lavender Hill

Plans are far advanced to close down Accra’s famed liquid waste disposal site at Korle Gonno, notoriously known as ‘Lavender Hill’, because of the stench associated with it.

Controlled dumping of refuse at Abokobi landfill site

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

Workers of Waste Landfills fumigating the dumpsite

Controlled dumping of waste is ongoing at the Abokobi landfill site due to the absence of alternative dumpsites in the Ga East Municipality, Mr John Kwao Sackey, the Municipal Chief Executive, has stated.

Chorkor beach turned dumping ground for refuse, human excreta

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

Filth along the Chorkor beach

Chorkor, a fishing community in Accra, is an ugly scene of heaps of refuse and human excreta wrapped in black plastic bags and scattered around, which emit foul smell.

Govt puts in measures to contain cholera

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

Faecal waste pouring directly into the sea at Lavender Hill

 The government has put in place measures to stop this year’s cholera outbreak from escalating into an epidemic, Mr Kweku Quansah, a Programme Officer of the Environmental Health and Sanitation Directorate (EHSD), has said.

Let’s redefine the concept of waste — Dr Yirenya-Tawiah

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

A lecturer at the Institute of Environment and Sanitation Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Dr Dzidzo Yirenya-Tawiah, has called for a redefinition of what is classified as waste in the country.