By:tntnewsapergh.com
An energy policy expert,JK Owusu-Boakye,aka General Abito, has advised the government through the Ministry of sanitation to urgently engage Zoomliion ( a leading waste management firm), to set up industrial plants to turn waste to electricity generation, turn smoke to sterilize vapour and residue waste as asphalt for road construction.
According to him, apart from safeguarding the environment, it would also go a long way to create jobs and skills for thousands of Ghanaian youth.
General Abito said Singapore generates 250,000 containers of waste daily, 365 days and generate electricity for the city – country and over 60,000 employment, dem stile smoke into atmospheric vapour and used residue as road asphalt.
According to him,this is a game changing waste to energy mechanism, making the city-country clean and out of waste.”This can be done in Ghana (Accra) to get it cleaned as the president said.
Fortunately, for Ghana we have Zoomlion Waste Management Company, that can turn this policy to workable practice of cleaning Accra and our communities, what are we waiting for?, he asked.
The Energy policy consultant explained that, Zoomlion is in every district in Ghana, and as local giant in the Waste Management, there is no gainsaying that Ghana can turn a waste menace to positive socio-economic gains for development in its energy transition agenda 2050.
He advised that Zoomlion should partner the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to create a Youth in Waste-to- Energy module to capture this new ‘clean city of waste’ ,employment generation policy in Ghana set on the lines of what is in Singapore.
