{"id":327983,"date":"2017-06-13T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T16:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=327983"},"modified":"2017-06-13T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T16:30:54","slug":"ama-shuts-down-six-illegal-landfill-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=327983","title":{"rendered":"AMA shuts down six &#8216;illegal&#8217; landfill sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has shut down six illegal landfill sites in the Accra Metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>The six include a huge site on the Mortuary Road, behind the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC)<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;tQBPDul1absD6WwhqKdVjsoHGrxmONaA&#8221;]Other landfill sites within the Glefe, Okponglo, Adedenkpo, Tunga and Mallam Market areas have also been closed down.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Accra Metropolis has no permanent landfill site, a situation which has forced some residents to create their own dump sites.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of the AMA\u2019s Waste Management Department, Anthony Mensah, said the creation of new transfer sites for the city\u2019s waste paved way for the closure.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, Mr. Mensah said, &#8220;we have a mini-transfer station located at Kokomlemle. That one has been operational for the last two years so that is an option. We also have a mini transfer station located at Mallam right behind the Mallam Interchange. Then there is a third transfer station which was commissioned about a month and a half ago at Achimota so these three facilities are available for use,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The AMA also says plans are underway to construct another site at a convenient location for rubbish collectors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We don&#8217;t need landfill sites &#8211; Frimpong-Boateng\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng had earlier said there was <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/02\/we-dont-need-landfill-sites-frimpong-boateng\/\">no need<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for Ghana to have landfill sites to keep waste which is often burnt, instead of being recycled.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that waste could be considered as\u00a0raw materials needed to produce either energy, compost or something else.<\/p>\n<p>Thus Ghana needed to get to the level of a country like Sweden, where they want to import waste from other countries so that they can process, the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Eugenia Tenkorang\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has shut down six illegal landfill sites in the Accra Metropolis. The six include a huge site on the Mortuary Road, behind the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;tQBPDul1absD6WwhqKdVjsoHGrxmONaA&#8221;]Other landfill sites within the Glefe, Okponglo, Adedenkpo, Tunga and Mallam Market areas have also been closed down. Currently, the Accra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8158,119,8159],"class_list":["post-327983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-accra-metropolis","tag-ama","tag-landfill-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}