The District Chief Executive for Awutu-Effutu-Senya, Mr. Solomon Abbam Quaye, has said about 37,000 metric tones of solid waste is produced in the district annually.
Out of this, only 40 per cent is properly managed through the placement in communal refuse containers for collection and transportation to final disposal sites.
Mr. Abbam Quaye said this when he addressed the second ordinary meeting of the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District Assembly at Winneba.
He said "the rest find their way into unauthorized sites such as beaches, bushes and public drains creating serious environmental problems".
"Much of the problems thus described is very prominent at Kasoa as a consequence of rapid urbanization of the area".
He said other sanitation problems identified in the district include indiscriminate defecation along the beaches, refuse dumps and other unauthorized places.
The rest are poor drainage system resulting in stagnation of water and poor control over physical structure development.
Mr. Abbam-Quaye said in order to alleviate the problems of waste management, the assembly has started private door-to-door refuse collection at Winneba and Kasoa on pilot basis as a back-up for the use of communal refuse containers.
He said Kasoa and Winneba have been zoned into five wards and Environmental Health officers have been assigned to be in-charge to ensure efficiency.
Source: GNA
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