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WtERT Germany // Kai Löffelbein
Ctrl-X, A topography of e-waste

Together with Mr. Thomas Schwarz (photo), Managing Director of Zweckverband Waste Management Region Hannover (aha) Werner Bauer and Dr. Karoline Borner, WtERT-Germany had the pleasure to visit the impressive photography exhibition "Ctrl-X, A topography of e-waste" of documentary photographer Kai Löffelbein in Hanover.

WtERT Germany
Expert Information Seminar (FIS) Ghana ”Power supply from Bioenergy”

22 July – 28 July 2018: During a one-week technical information seminar (FIS) in Bavaria, eleven professionals and managers from private commercial enterprises, governmental authorities, and lecturers from universities visited Bavaria.

Kolics Company Ltd. (KoliKo Wear)
Kolics Converts Waste Textiles into Shoes and Bags, Ghana

Kolics Company Ltd. (KoliKo wear) is a social enterprise that seeks to support skilled and opportunity seeking youth to produce innovative products which are environmentally friendly.

Experts / Involved Parties

Mira Kaoussan, MBA
HSM GmbH + Co KG

Frank Boateng Acheampong
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Dr. Eng. Dhundi Raj Pathak
President/Center of Research for Environment, Energy and Water (CREEW)

Coliba Ghana Ltd.
The Dansoman-Glefe community plastic buyback center in Ghana

The Dansoman-Glefe community plastic buyback center initiated by Coliba Ghana offers the avenue for community members to bring their plastic waste in exchange for cash, school fees, insurance incentives etc.

WEEE Centre
The WEEE Centre in Nairobi, Kenya and 15 Other Countries in Africa

The WEEE Centre, Nairobi Kenya offers recycling services for ICT waste to the general public, business, learning institutions, government and NGOs in East Africa working closely with social enterprise Close the Gap project. The increasing amount of E-waste has created a need to recycle them in an environment-friendly way and there are opportunities to reuse the ICT products to bridge technological gaps in low-income countries. Thus WEEE Centre works on the treatment of collected ICT waste by creating possibilities of reusing, dismantling and sourcing of downstream management in environmental compliance and has safely handled more than 10,000 tonnes of e-waste since inception.

FOLA AGRIC SOCIAL ASSOCIATION
Combination of composting, tillage and social business into organic agriculture: Aid worker Josef Elas supports and trains small farmers with his association 'FöLa' in Ghana, Africa

Basics of the FöLA concept: Resource management starts with the application of the products - in this case, the compost. In Ghana, the FöLA concept will combine composting, tillage and social business into organic agriculture.

ESS Magazine
Black Gold- Organic Waste Can Give Energy Kofi Ampomah-Benefo (MPhil)

It is well known that energy can neither be created nor destroyed but transformed from one form to another. It is very common to give examples such electrical energy can be turned to heat energy with an electric iron or the wind energy can give electrical energy by the use of a wind mill. We also know that food substances give humans energy when eaten. The energy food substances contain are called chemical energy. Now, think about this. When food substance is ‘spoilt’ and cannot be eaten does it still contain energy? But what do we do with spoilt Food substances? Don’t we throw them away?

DGAW - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Abfallwirtschaft e.V.
Pharmaceutical Waste Management in Ghana - Consequences and interventions MSc. Samuel Sasu, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Kümmerer, o. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Kranert

Pharmaceuticals are essential to the delivery of health care in any given population or country. They cut across all major areas of health care delivery and their absence or inadequate supply has always led to loss of confidence in the health care system (MOH, 2004a). The main goal of this research project is to assess the system of managing waste from pharmaceuticals in hospitals and homes in Ghana.

DGAW - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Abfallwirtschaft e.V.
Mass Flow Analysis and Economic Evaluation of Informal Sector Activities Ulrike Lange, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Bernd Bilitewski

The thesis will analyze mass flows and estimate corresponding monetary flows in three different key areas: Rio, Brazil; Delhi, India; Germany-Poland. A focus is put on formal and informal amounts, impacts on recycling quotas, advantages and disadvantages for waste management systems, legal barriers, political incentives and economic drivers to regulate informal activities and find differences and common grounds regarding waste management systems. The current contribution highlights the economic drivers and incentives that cause informal activities and presents results regarding the informal sector in Germany.

DGAW - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Abfallwirtschaft e.V.
Healthcare Waste Management in Ghana-Case Study on Pharmaceutical Waste M.Sc. Samuel Sasu, Professor Dr. rer. nat. habil. Jörg W. Metzger, o. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Kranert , Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Kümmerer

In thousands of health carei nstitutions and millions of homes in Ghana, medications are consumed on a daily basis.

European Compost Network ECN e.V.
A comparative study for co-composting of river reed in Ghana George Nana Kwesi Rockson, Elias Delali Aklaku , Prof. Charles Quansah

A comparative trial to co-compost river reed harvest from the Volta Lake was conducted under the mechanically turned windrow and passively piped windrow systems.

Environment360
Environment360, Ghana, Supports Informal Sector Plastic Waste Collectors to Reduce Plastic Litter in Coastal Communities

Environment360 works with informal sector plastic collectors in coastal communities throughout Ghana to help combat marine litter by ensuring plastic waste is collected from communities before it enters into waterways. According to World Bank, 80% of marine litter comes from land based sources. Fishermen in Ghana pull in nets full of plastic waste each day. Plastic bottles wash up each day in the coastal communities. This phenomena not only affect life on land but life below the sea and consequently leading to the potential contamination of some portion of the food chain by plastic waste. Environment360 works with all players along the waste management value chain to decrease the amount of indiscriminate dumping of waste in coastal and urban communities. The organization has empowered 300 waste pickers and supported 32 additional people with specialized training for their businesses.

RECYCLE UP! GHANA
Recycle Up! Ghana Empowers Youth to Develop Local Solutions for Environmental and Societal Problems

Recycle Up! Ghana (RUG) aims to train and empower the Ghanaian youth and as well provide the platform for them to tackle the plastic waste challenge in the country.

European Compost Network ECN e.V.
Organised source separation of household waste – pilot study of university staff residences in Ghana Ms Mizpah Asase, Dr. Moses Y. Mensah, Samuel K. Amponsah

The purpose of this paper is to present the results and experiences of a pilot source separation of household solid waste conducted in households of staff of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.

European Compost Network ECN e.V.
Feasibility of electricity generation from municipal solid waste in Ghana - a waste management technology Dr. Moses Y. Mensah, C. Kotey

Engineered landfill sites are under construction in five areas in Ghana whose average power extraction would be between 1-2MW. It would therefore be feasible and cost effective in producing electricity in Ghana from the municipal waste, which would as well be environmentally friendly.