Waste Management University unveiled

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• mohammed 12 years ago

  it does not matter how you embellish it if you do not change your desire to cheat and exploit your workers, no amount of training or media report will shelve your ethical challenges. Whiles the down trodden does the rake and ...
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  it does not matter how you embellish it if you do not change your desire to cheat and exploit your workers, no amount of training or media report will shelve your ethical challenges. Whiles the down trodden does the rake and pick dirty work, the cheats take out the lion share of the pie and stuff their belies with Alchohole and all kinds of sinful things. Do you think it is fair to pay that meagre amount of GHS500.00 to the hardworking personnel whose hard-work keeps everybody in the Country healthy? Shame on to your company for your ethical challenge of fairness and looting of the most important workers of the Country by sitting and giving very little of the cake to the most deserving personnel.

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• Saint James 12 years ago

  Nobody needs University training to tell people how to dispose of "BOLA".Is this not COMMON SENSE? It is the lack of Law-enforcement in Ghana and the failure to provide decent places of convenience and dumpsters in Ghana.What ...
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  Nobody needs University training to tell people how to dispose of "BOLA".Is this not COMMON SENSE? It is the lack of Law-enforcement in Ghana and the failure to provide decent places of convenience and dumpsters in Ghana.What can University training do to those who defecate in black plastic bags and throw them all over the city of Accra?Come on,Let the Government build decent places of convenience for the public,provide dumpsters at aprropiate places in all neighbourhoods and enforce the laws which are not being enforced? How many Ghanaians have been arrested for the reckless disposal of garbage all over the city of Accra?

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• ELINAM 12 years ago

  Get the job done.
  In the 60s US, black men worked under nasty conditions for mafia waste management companies but got the cities cleaned up, Martin Luther King rallied around their course and salaries got better and the citi ...
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  Get the job done.
  In the 60s US, black men worked under nasty conditions for mafia waste management companies but got the cities cleaned up, Martin Luther King rallied around their course and salaries got better and the cities and towns more cleaner.
  Invest in more trucks and hardware and pay the workers well.

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• KMAN 12 years ago

  ANOTHER SOURCE TO MILK GHANA DRY

  ANOTHER SOURCE TO MILK GHANA DRY

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• QATAR JOBS AND WORK 12 years ago

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  Travel And Work In Qatar With All Expenses Paid The Recruitment Agency,20% Would Be Deducted From Your Salary Up To 12Months.The Agency Will Provide The Following…
  
  VISA
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  WORKING PERMIT
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  AND OTHER BENEFITS
  Factory Work,Office Work,Casual Work And Ect.Salaries Range From 1000riyal($275)-5000Riyal($1373)
  For Details Call Tel: 0508535532

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• FRED 12 years ago

  This is laudable but the company must train it own workers in the company first or give reference to its workers to enroll in the university.

  This is laudable but the company must train it own workers in the company first or give reference to its workers to enroll in the university.

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• GhanaBA 12 years ago

  good ideas with Negative Hidden Agenda = Failure to manage waste in this country.

  good ideas with Negative Hidden Agenda = Failure to manage waste in this country.

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• ELINAM 12 years ago

  Trash collection should all the time be the job of the local municipality with private contractors taking care of the spilled over in private properties and factories.
  Zoomlion's dominance in this field from north to south,e ...
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  Trash collection should all the time be the job of the local municipality with private contractors taking care of the spilled over in private properties and factories.
  Zoomlion's dominance in this field from north to south,east to the west of Ghana must be challenged in court as an illegal set up with too much undercurrent of corruption.

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• EZEKIEL 12 years ago

  Whatabout YOU too starting a BUSINESS in that sector ??

  Whatabout YOU too starting a BUSINESS in that sector ??

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• Togbe Faruk Osei 12 years ago

  A thief is a thief! No matter the mask he/she wears.

  A thief is a thief! No matter the mask he/she wears.

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• GHANABA 12 years ago

  MR MENSAH, PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPELLINGS BEFORE YOU PRINT THEM.WE CAN MAKE MISTAKES BECAUSE WE ARE NOT TRAINED JOURNALISTS

  MR MENSAH, PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPELLINGS BEFORE YOU PRINT THEM.WE CAN MAKE MISTAKES BECAUSE WE ARE NOT TRAINED JOURNALISTS

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• Sam, Bern 12 years ago

  Stop this nonsense, deal with your corrupt life and save Ghana the shame you have brought on it.
  The church of Pentecoast Ghana should pray for his deliverance before they take any tithe or offering from this man

  Stop this nonsense, deal with your corrupt life and save Ghana the shame you have brought on it.
  The church of Pentecoast Ghana should pray for his deliverance before they take any tithe or offering from this man

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• Adama d'Gharty, 12 years ago

  The unenviable job of keeping our living environment clean and tidy surely should rest with the local or municipal governments, with the sole responsibility of employing regular cleaners to well maintain the towns and cities ...
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  The unenviable job of keeping our living environment clean and tidy surely should rest with the local or municipal governments, with the sole responsibility of employing regular cleaners to well maintain the towns and cities without fail. The idea of setting up a University Institution to train men and women in general waste disposal certainly strikes me as childish, ludicrous and perhaps borders short on educational notions for this poor country of ours.

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• EZEKIEL 12 years ago

  There are many ULTRA-MODERN ???? establishments in Ghana and YET we continue to Urinate around IN-discriminately and STILL SHIT on the Beaches for LACK of facilities! What IS ultra-modern anyway ???
  THE FOUNDATION of ANY BUI ...
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  There are many ULTRA-MODERN ???? establishments in Ghana and YET we continue to Urinate around IN-discriminately and STILL SHIT on the Beaches for LACK of facilities! What IS ultra-modern anyway ???
  THE FOUNDATION of ANY BUILDING MUST be FIRM.......no repairing around lintel level will make the building(GHANA) stand firmer !!!!
  WHAT IS THE NATIONAL DEV. PLAN?????

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• Obrefo 12 years ago

  It should be called Create Loote and Share University(CLSU, Ghana). Hahahahaahahahahahahhaahaha......lol. Core subjects: Corruption 101, 102 and 103. Beginning Create, Loot and Share. Bribe 100, 101, & 102. Basic Kickback A. ...
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  It should be called Create Loote and Share University(CLSU, Ghana). Hahahahaahahahahahahhaahaha......lol. Core subjects: Corruption 101, 102 and 103. Beginning Create, Loot and Share. Bribe 100, 101, & 102. Basic Kickback A. Quid pro quo A, B and C. Bogus Ctontract 100, 101 and 102. Degrees: Bsc in Corruption, BA in Looting, Diploma in Kickbacks.....lol

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• Saint James 12 years ago

  I believe he word UNIVERSITY is making Ghanaians crazy.Do we still have the school of Hygiene.Why can't you improve and expand this school instead of establishng a bogus WASTE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY.There is something wrong wi ...
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  I believe he word UNIVERSITY is making Ghanaians crazy.Do we still have the school of Hygiene.Why can't you improve and expand this school instead of establishng a bogus WASTE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY.There is something wrong with Ghanaians.

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• GHFUO, change ur thinking 12 years ago

  GARBAGE IN. ENERGY OUT
  REMAIN CONTINUOSLY VIGILANT.
  TURNING WASTE INTO A VALUABLE RESOURCE.
  RECYCLE WASTE CAN BE TURNED INTO CLOTHING, SHOES, AS A SOURCE OF POWER/ENERGY, RUGS, BEER CANS,
  SHIPPING CONTAINERS, CAR TIRES, C ...
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  GARBAGE IN. ENERGY OUT
  REMAIN CONTINUOSLY VIGILANT.
  TURNING WASTE INTO A VALUABLE RESOURCE.
  RECYCLE WASTE CAN BE TURNED INTO CLOTHING, SHOES, AS A SOURCE OF POWER/ENERGY, RUGS, BEER CANS,
  SHIPPING CONTAINERS, CAR TIRES, CARS, PLANES, TRAINS, ROADS, COMPUTERS, BUILDING/CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS....NAME IT.
  use GARBAGE AS ENERGY FOR FACTORIES, BURN THE TRASH, N LET THE STEAM BE USED AS A SOURCE OF ENERGY.
  THIS WILL PROTECT THE ENVIRONMNT N MAKE MONEY. GH GOVT MUST CONTACT Foss Manufacturing Company, LLC
  Tel: 603-929-6000
  WASTE MGMNT COMPAIES SHOULD BE LISTED ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE
  Where Do Old Cellphones Go to Die? By LEYLA ACAROGLU
  AMERICANS replace their cellphones every 22 months, junking some 150 million old phones in 2010 alone. Ever wondered what happens to all these old phones? The answer isn’t pretty.
  In far-flung, mostly impoverished places like Agbogbloshie, Ghana; Delhi, India; and Guiyu, China, children pile e-waste into giant mountains and burn it so they can extract the metals — copper wires, gold and silver threads — inside, which they sell to recycling merchants for only a few dollars. In India, young boys smash computer batteries with mallets to recover cadmium, toxic flecks of which cover their hands and feet as they work. Women spend their days bent over baths of hot lead, “cooking” circuit boards so they can remove slivers of gold inside. Greenpeace, the Basel Action Network and others have posted YouTube videos of young children inhaling the smoke that rises from burned phone casings as they identify and separate different kinds of plastics for recyclers. It is hard to imagine that good health is a by-product of their unregulated industry.
  Indeed, most scientists agree that exposure poses serious health risks, especially to pregnant women and children. The World Health Organization reports that even a low level of exposure to lead, cadmium and mercury (all of which can be found in old phones) can cause irreversible neurological damage and threaten the development of a child.
  The growing toxic nightmare that is e-waste is not confined to third world outposts. It also poses health problems in the United States where, for several years, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has kept inmates busy processing e-waste. There are concrete steps the government, manufacturers and consumers could take to better dispose of electronic trash and to help prevent the pileup of more e-waste and the hazards e-waste processing poses.
  The United States, for example, remains the only industrialized country that has not ratified the Basel Convention, an international treaty that makes it illegal to export or traffic in toxic e-waste. Fully implementing the treaty would be a step toward joining global efforts to contain toxic waste troubles.
  The Responsible Electronics Recycling Act, introduced in Congress in 2011, would have made it illegal to export toxic waste from the United States to countries that don’t belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The aim was to stop dumping e-waste on the world’s poorest nations and thus to provide an incentive for safer waste management in our own country. The bill had bipartisan support but was never put to a vote.
  The European Union provides a model for industrial regulation that would shift the burden of safe product disposal back to the manufacturers that produce electronic goods. Its Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive requires electronic sellers to accept, free of charge, any of their used products brought in by customers for recycling. The goal is to have properly recycled 85 percent of the European Union’s e-waste by 2019. Similarly, Japan requires its electronic manufacturers to establish their own recycling facilities or commission third parties to recycle a range of products, from computers and cellphones to TVs and air-conditioners.
  Government or consumer pressure on manufacturers to design electronics with end-of-product-life issues in mind could be enormously helpful. Most cellphones, for example, are deliberately designed to make disassembly difficult. Changes in the way manufacturers glue, screw and solder components together would make it easier to dismantle discarded phones and thus reduce the risks posed by crude recycling techniques like those deployed by Ghanaian children.
  THERE are alternative phone service business models that could be beneficial to producers, users and the rest of us. For example, manufacturers could sell products complete with prearranged recycling service or subscriptions that made it possible, for example, for phone user to exchange old units for new ones rather than throwing them away. Under a product service system model, companies recycle old units and repurpose core components. Xerox uses a similar model for its photocopiers, without impact on sales or profits.
  In the absence of government regulation or industry initiative, consumers could play a role in determining what happens to products that have outlived their usefulness. Most phones and small electronics are designed with obsolescence in mind. But what if we held on to our gadgets longer and repaired, rather than replaced them? We could recycle the ones we no longer use through certified recycling services like e-Stewards, a nonprofit organization that runs certification programs for e-waste recyclers, ensuring that goods are not improperly exported.
  As consumers we need to demand better end-of-life options for our high-tech trash; if manufacturers and government fall down on the job, we, the millions of Americans who own cellphones, should press for safe recycling.
  Leyla Acaroglu is a sustainability strategist based in Melbourne, Australia.

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