Mr Abdul Majeed Dokurgu, the Effia-Kwesimintsim Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has commissioned ten branded tricycles meant to collect plastic waste from households within the municipality.
The move, to be done for free, is to inculcate waste segregation practices among residents to ensure proper waste management in the area.
The collection would be done in collaboration with CorpNation Foundation, an organisation that is into plastic waste segregation and recycling.
The MCE commissioned the tricycles during a waste segregation sensitisation campaign for market women at the Apremdo Central Market as part of activities to observe this month’s National Sanitation Day.
Mr Dokurgu stated that major volumes of waste generated in the municipality were plastic, and that the Assembly had taken steps to promote segregation among the people to ensure proper management.
He said this type of waste had become a major environmental problem, choking drainage systems and causing issues like flooding during rainy seasons.
Mr Dokurgu said: “We have realised that volumes of the waste we have been collecting all the time are plastics, so we thought it wise that in order to reduce the cost of collection, we have to sensitise the people on the need for us to segregate them for recycling.”
He said the sensitisation campaign would target schools, churches, mosques, youth groups, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure waste segregation became an everyday practice among residents.
“It is my hope that we all adopt the culture of separating plastics from the general solid waste so that our municipality will be free from plastic waste for a healthy environment for all,” the MCE added.
GNA
