Ghana Criticizes Landfilling as Inefficient Waste Management

A report from Myjoyonline criticizes landfilling as an economically wasteful and unsustainable approach to Ghana's municipal waste challenge, arguing it merely stores problems rather than solving them.

11 Apr, 17:07 — 11 Apr, 17:07

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myjoyonlineMixed143d ago

Landfilling waste management creates no value, it’s an economic waste

Landfilling is not waste management. It is value destruction. For too long, landfilling has been treated as the default answer to Ghana’s municipal waste challenge. But landfills do not solve the problem. They merely store it temporarily while generating new environmental, social, and fiscal burdens.

By Charles Nixon

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Ghana Criticizes Landfilling as Inefficient Waste Management

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Landfilling waste management creates no value, it’s an economic waste

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