Gov’t launches “One household-one bin” project to mitigate littering

The project is geared towards ensuring that littering is completely eradicated around the country.

Earlier this week, the government cancelled a $74 million contract awarded to Jospong Group of Companies to supply waste bins on account of non-performance.

Project Coordinator in charge of the project, Lawrence Laryea, says government in targeting distributing one million waste bins in the next two years.

“There have been indiscriminate littering in the country and a lot of the households have challenges acquiring the proper storage facility for their solid waste. The project has come up basically to help reduce indiscriminate littering and ensuring that households have adequate solid waste storage facility,” he said during a training organised to sensitize the media and the public.

“Our ambition is to distribute one million waste bins in two years so our target is to be able to distribute about six hundred thousand waste bins in 2019 and in 2020, we round it up with the four hundred thousand waste bins.”

The project is set to begin in the North Ayawaso Municipal Assembly, where households will be given waste bins.

Nationwide, a minimum of about three hundred thousand (300,000) waste bins are expected to be distributed within six months and one million waste bins in two years.

The waste bins are also expected to come with a tracking device to enable easy monitoring of bins at the different locations.

“All the waste bins we are distributing are tagged. In fact, they have identification tags, basically to know where each bin we have given out is. And also the trucks that will service them will be provided with scanners to know whether this bins are being serviced or not,” Mr. Laryea added.