Audit existing sanitary sites to address waste management land shortages – WasteCare CEO urges assemblies

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Public health engineering expert and Chief Executive Officer of Waste Care Associates, Lukman Salifu Public health engineering expert and Chief Executive Officer of Waste Care Associates, Lukman Salifu, has urged metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to audit land originally reserved for sanitary sites as they seek space for waste transfer facilities.

Explaining the role of transfer stations, Mr Salifu distinguished between communal container sites and larger facilities used to move waste over longer distances.