Waste treatment plant remains unused in Koforidua while Assemblies struggle to manage rising waste volumes

Municipal and district assemblies across the Eastern Region to manage rising volume of daily waste generation expending huge funds weekly on refuse collection while struggling with limited landfill space, even as a nearly completed waste treatment plant remains non-operational.

As assemblies continue to spend huge sums managing overflowing landfills amid growing sanitation concerns, stakeholders say the operationalisation of the Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant has become increasingly urgent to provide a sustainable and long-term solution to the Eastern Region’s waste management challenges.

Constructed under the government’s Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant (IRECOP) initiative by Zoomlion Ghana Limited and its partners, the Eastern Regional waste treatment plant, located along the Koforidua–Akwadum Road, was expected to process municipal solid waste into reusable materials and organic compost.