The Bono solid waste treatment facility, which is being built to improve trash management, is set to open in August of this year.
When completed, it will aid in the conversion of garbage into useable material for the people's socioeconomic gain.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Wawasua-Sunyani, Madam Esther Abayeta Asadoo, the Bono, Bono East, and Ahafo Regional Manager of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a private sanitation and waste management firm executing the project, said.
On Friday, September 11, 2020, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo broke ground for a cooperation project between the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources and Zoomlion Ghana Limited in Wawasua, a village in the Sunyani Municipality.
Madam Asadoo indicated that inhabitants of Sunyani and its vicinity would have their solid waste collected and processed into reusable products, mainly compost for agricultural use.
She claimed that the Wawasua residual dump site, changing room, waste composite building, power plant, and administration block are "95 percent complete."
Madam Asadoo stated that some of the project's machineries had been transported to the site, but that delivery of other machines and equipment had been delayed due to lengthy importation processes.
She said that the composite machine had already been delivered, but that it had been placed with medical waste equipment in Accra and had yet to be brought to the location.
She stated that waste management was everyone's duty and that it had to start at the top. home and urged each household to purchase a litter container in order to avoid indiscriminate dumping of garbage and the resulting health problems, as well as to enhance sanitary management in the area.
She noted that the company's low trash collection price should not prevent consumers from signing up for the bin since "investment in waste management is capital intensive, and it comes with recurring expenditures on gasoline and vehicle maintenance."
Madam Asadoo called on the Metropolitan/Municipal and District Assemblies to implement sanitation bye-laws in order to improve waste management in the country.
She promised that the initiative will provide direct and indirect job possibilities to kids with relevant skills and competencies, and that 50 managers would be hired immediately to begin with.
However, there will be indirect job prospects for food sellers and other traders as a result of the operation.
During a visit to the site, the GNA noticed that some of the machines had been installed and were guarded by a private security firm.