By Benjamin Nii Nai Anyetei
Accra is stepping into a new era of waste management, with plans to transform plastic pollution into a source of energy and jobs.
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), in partnership with Intellivision Technologies Ltd, has signed an agreement to construct a 100-tonne plastic-to-fuel pyrolysis plant that will convert discarded plastics into petrol, diesel, kerosene, and activated carbon.
The project is being hailed as a turning point for the capital, where clogged drains, flooding, and open burning of plastics have long been linked to poor sanitation and health challenges.
For Mayor Michael Kpakpo Allotey, the deal is more than a sanitation measure — it is about reimagining waste as wealth.
“This plant is about cleaner neighbourhoods, flood prevention, and a circular economy that works for our people,” he said, adding that the initiative would create 1,500 direct and indirect jobs across collection, sorting, and operations.
The Korle Klottey Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. Alfred Allotey-Gaisie, described the project as a model that could inspire other assemblies to embrace technology-driven sanitation solutions.
On his part, Intellivision CEO Kelvin Boateng called the plant the beginning of a movement to place innovation at the centre of urban waste management.
“Nothing should be wasted; everything has value,” he stressed, underscoring that the project’s outputs would meet international standards for industrial and commercial use.
Experts say the plant will help divert thousands of tonnes of low-value plastics from Accra’s drains and landfills, significantly cutting open burning while generating cleaner fuels for industries.
With one tonne of plastic equating to about 100 bags of cement, the Head of AMA Waste Management, Ing. Solomon Noi, argued that the plant’s 100-tonne daily capacity could radically change the city’s sanitation outlook.
The initiative is also expected to give Accra’s informal waste collectors a reliable end-market for sachet water plastics and films that recyclers often reject — injecting dignity and income into their work.
If successful, officials say the project could be scaled to other parts of Ghana, marking a continental benchmark for turning Africa’s waste crisis into opportunity.
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Wow that’s a great idea 💡
Very good initiative. Excellent idea for creatng new jobs and cheap ⛽️
Location please???
This Is Great Idea. I Suggest The Government Compels Soda, cooking Oil, Bottled Water Companies To Build Recyclable Crushing Cash Redeemable Machines, Like TN ey Do I United States, This Is Fisal Responsibity, In Recycling Their By – Products FOR a Cleaner Planet. These Companies Are The Biggest Pollution, Problem In All of Africa. They Sell Products & Give AK Thing In Return 99%o of Time. Let The Poor Use & Enjoy These Product s, But Let It Not Harm Mother Earth. I Pupose The Goverrnmet Demands All Companies To Have Recycling Components To Help The Communities To Be Healthier.. Hooray Fr Ghana.
Wonderful, a step in the right direction.
Am hoping politicians would someday not overburden them with new king new law syndrome.
This is a good news but why is it going to be done in accra.we know Accra is chocked so I think when is taken away to another region or a region close by it will be better
This amazing news
Make you people come laka laka us ooo this kind news we hear aaa taya
This thing of Intellivision Company sounds good only on paper. Have they told us how many plastic waste is generated in Accra in a day?
Yes, the company has 100,000 tonnes capacity, is it of the plastics waste to produce how much kerosine or diseal?
There is even competing interests of what exactly the company wants to produce? Is it diseal, kerosine or carbon? Then there is also a company already in Accra using plastic waster to produce pavement blocks and other furniture like chairs. Are these two companies not going to have unhealthy competition?
Where has this been possible? In the USA the African American who invented turning plastic waste into diseal had to go into hiding recently.
So, if it was such novelle in the USA how did it become possible for somebody freely and easily bringing it to Ghana?
The AMA should be very careful what contract it is going to sign and not money or profit will be realized.
If the metro pays the company to pay the individuals that collect the waste and the waste is not enough the company will not run a machine and when you run a machine like a plastic waste one it can not stop allowed under 24 hour economy.
This whole venture should be tried under proof of concept basis for at least 2 years before the AMA can use taxpayers money for a contract of the sort. It should be purely a private venture and not PPP to start with. To guard against taxpayers money going down the drain again.