Waste Segregation

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• published: 30 Mar 2016
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Generating waste is part of what living things do as they interact by depending on each other .Animals make good use of plants waste in the form of oxygen .Though carbon dioxide is a byproduct of animals, the plants needs that as their raw material to make food .This gives all aspects of life's comparative importance. And all the things needed to make life comfortable abounds. The human body has an amazing workforce that makes getting rid of waste go hand in hand with building or repairing the body itself. In anticipation of replicating Waste Segregation at source in our Homes, Churches, Markets, Hospitals and various places, the Rural Water Development Programme of the Church of Christ (RWDPCoC) and the Waste Segregation & Composting Moment (WSCM) is partnering with the relevant stakeholders to encourage basic and improved sanitation . This begins with the Basic Schools so that the story will be different before they enter the University or any tertiary institution as individuals who know how to add value to their waste. Crude oil has a crude value but refined oil has a refined and higher value. The National Waste Segregation Programme was launched by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ) in November 2013 .The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development earlier on initiated the “Waste to Cash” project in 2012 .Both was to add to our waste . The Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) finding shows that Ghana’s GHC 1.2 billion cedis waste revenue is lost annually because we do not recycle. What the whole nation recycles is less than 5%. Like a ball thrown at a wall, whatever we throw away be it liquid, solid or gas will surely come to us in another form .As humans and to be alive one will have to excrete or get rid of unwanted substances and wherever we live be it in the slums or well structured buildings, one thing is common over time all these will come back either clean or diseased ; the used menstrual pad , T- roll, empty cans, broken bottles ,banana pills wrapped in in a polythene, metal scraps, used condom, baby and adult diapers, used water sachet ,sweat ,tears, spitted saliva and sputum, bath water running in the gutters, urine and toilets. They are all natures’ signatures of a past activity. they do not just disappear since matter cannot be destroyed but exist in another form. But mixing all together before discarding it is crude. . Sanitation has good benefits but lacks glamour.Lets separate our wastes! How does your waste leave your compound? When a Doctor leaves an instrument in his patient’s stomach we want to sue him in an American court for being the third idiot. When the CHRAJ boss decided to spend a small change for hotel expenses society deemed it unfit but she thought it was administratively justified. When the President got a new name at Ghana’s 59th Independence we considered it as a national disgrace by our judgments. But we see nothing wrong mixing things that will burn with those that will rot. We go to the extent of adding broken glass together to banana peels ,sanitary pads, perfume cans ,forgetting that it takes so long for some plastics to decay .It does not makes economic sense neither is it profitable not to separate it at source. More resources in the form of labour and time is going to be needed anyway (kids and adults maybe under unsafe conditions) to separate before it comes to us to use again. The same heart pumping blood to support life, does so also to clean the waste generated concurrently .So is the same people generating the waste be part of the process of value addition. Hence the formation of the movement with RWDPCoC using its Gospel Wash programme as an advocating tool whiles the WSCM made of five distinctive subgroups; 1-Waste Generators, 2-Waste Collectors, 3- Waste Transporters, 4-Waste Treatment Experts and 5-Waste Re-users. Ghana does not have a State /National cocoa farm but subsistence farmers are supporting us by their daily efforts. Greater Accra has a diminishing commercial landfill in Tema. But mixing all together before discarding it is crude. Sanitation has good benefits but lacks glamour.Lets separate our wastes!.