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Zoomlion Appeals To UN Habitat Confab

By Daily Guide
General News Zoomlion Appeals To UN Habitat Confab
OCT 25, 2016 LISTEN

Albert Ankrah, Business Development Manager at Jospong Group, has called on the United Nations (UN) Habitat Conference to incorporate sanitation and waste management into urbanization policies.

He described sanitation and waste management as key components of urbanization and urban development which have always been left out of the agenda.

In an interview at the UN Habitat III Conference with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Quito, Ecuador, Mr. Ankrah revealed that cities with no proper sanitation management system are bound to fail, adding that it was the bane of urban development in most African cities.

He said Zoomlion had developed its own urban development guidelines on sanitation and waste management for Ghana that are used for the engineering of landfills sites in the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies.

He said the guidelines are also used to established transfer stations to reduce haulage and movement of waste products.

According to him, the volume of waste generated in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, is reduced through the transfer stations.

He said the company also stressed the need for periodic distribution of garbage bins throughout the country, stressing that the company had distributed more than one million waste bins in urban centers throughout the country.

He said Zoomlion has instituted the “African Institute of Sanitation and Waste Management, affiliated to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi which trains professionals in sanitation and waste management.

Mr. Ankrah said his outfit had held discussions with some African countries and companies, adding that Zoomlion is partnering them now to achieve its goals in urban development and urbanization.

The UN Habitat III Conference is a platform to ratify and adopt the “New Urban Agenda,” which will focus on climate change, protection and public safety.

The Habitat III, the third conference in line with the bi-decennial cycle (1976, 1996 and 2016), is aimed at invigorating and securing renewed global political commitment to sustainable urbanization to focus on the implementation of the “New Urban Agenda” which builds on the Habitat Agenda of Istanbul in 1996.

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