The expansion of recycling operations at the Teshie Waste Transfer Station could reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill sites by as much as 80 percent, according to Zoomlion Ghana Limited.
The company said introducing a recycling facility at the station will help recover valuable materials from municipal waste and reduce pressure on Ghana’s already strained landfill sites.
The Teshie Transfer Station Operations Manager, Naa Ayorkor Koney, disclosed that plans are underway to begin recycling activities at the facility following its reopening after four years of inactivity.
Speaking on Monday, July 13, 2026, Madam Koney said the initiative forms part of broader efforts to improve waste management and promote sustainable disposal practices in Accra.
“We have a recycling facility at many places. We have one at Jamestown, and we are going to emulate that here at the Teshie transfer station,” she said.
She explained that the facility would focus on recovering recyclable materials such as PET bottles, sachet water plastics, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) containers, and other plastic products from collected waste.
According to her, these materials are processed and supplied to manufacturing companies, which use them to produce items including waste bins, buckets and plastic furniture.
“We recover the PET bottles, the pure water plastics, the bottles that we usually dispose of as HDPEs, the four-gallon containers, and then we process them for manufacturing companies so that they can use them to produce bins, buckets, and plastic tables,” she stated.
Madam Koney explained that recycling before final disposal significantly reduces the volume of waste transported to landfill sites.
“If originally we’re sending maybe 100 tonnes of waste to the final disposal site, with the recovery and the pre-processing that we are doing, we’re able to reduce the volume of the waste that goes to the disposal site to about 15 to 20 percent of what would have originally gone,” she said.
She, however, noted that the level of reduction depends on factors such as the quality and composition of waste received at the facility and the effectiveness of the recovery process.
The Teshie Waste Transfer Station resumed operations last week following a directive from the government to support the nationwide cleanup exercise, especially in communities affected by recent flooding.
The station plays an important role in waste management within parts of the Greater Accra Region, serving areas including Ledzokuku, Krowor, La Dade-Kotopon, and Tema West.
