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Title SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. A CASE STUDY OF ACCRA (GHANA)
Full text http://dspace.knust.edu.gh/dspace/handle/123456789/823
Date 1996
Author(s) Ayiku, N.
Abstract For many years now, the general sanitation of Accra has posed many challenges to the Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA). With the growing population of Accra now standing at about 20% of the population of Ghana, one of the most demanding aspects of the problem of the growth of Accra has been with its solid waste management. What has brought this particular problem into sharp focus is the need to develop a tourism industry in Ghana. One way to meet this challenge is to map out a cost effective privatization policy for the daily collection and disposal of all the solid waste. Projected economic trends in Ghana indicate that tourism as an industry has a good potential, and since poor .sanitation can impede the growth of tourism, it is mandatory that no effort be spared to meet the challenge posed by the solid waste disposal problem in Accra. Further to this such a policy has been proposed, the heart of which is a mathematical model of the Accra solid waste collection and disposal system. The model was developed and solved as a transportation optimization problem.To farther exploit the economic potential of the huge amounts of solid waste generated in cued around Accra (which presently stands in the order of 800 tonnes a day), it is proposed that the waste he recycled. A mathematical model of the recycling process is presented as a linear programming problem. A discussion to the solution of the model has been presented.
Publisher KNUST
Identifier 0855-0395
Repository Kumasi - Kwame Nkrumah University
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