Tamale Assembly To Establish Plastic Waste Recycling Plant

Tamale Metropolitan Assembly has unveiled its major policy direction of allocating a chunk of its share of the common fund for the year 2010 to establish a plastic waste recycling plant in Tamale. The project when complete will engage the services of dozens of unemployed youth idling in the metropolis whose responsibility will be the collection of plastic waste that cause havoc to the health of residents. Alhaji Abudulai Harunah Friday, Mayor of Tamale dropped this hint when he supervised a major clean up exercise in Tamale and its environs in commemoration of this year’s Remembrance Day celebration at the weekend. According to Alhaji Friday, blueprint on the recycling plant had been concluded with a Tema based expert and that work will soon begin at the proposed site. He said the assembly will not shirk its responsibility of maintaining Tamale’s track record as one of the rated best neat metropolis in Ghana and thereby urged residents to support the effort. Alhaji Friday reiterated his office’s determination to motivate deserving communities with incentives that will encourage them to keep their environment tidy as means of ensuring healthy and happier homes in the metropolis and beyond. He commended the Tamale Progressive Traders Association, Zoom-Lion company Limited and the various youth groups in Tamale for always partaking in the assembly’s quarterly major clean up exercises and disclosed that plans were far advanced to secure enough funding from developing partners to sustain the programme.

The clean-up exercise which lasted for several hours was replicated in some suburbs including Gumani, Chanshegu, Aboabo, Lamashegu, Kukuo and Kogni.

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