Green Revolution in Lomé: ECOBOX Launches Groundbreaking Solid Waste Redemption Project in Model Ecological City

In the face of environmental pollution, enterprises are multiplying. In Togo, municipality authorities are resorting to buying solid waste to put an end to the chaos on one side and on the other, in order to avoid problems associated with waste anarchy. With the official start of the VAL’IDEEE project of the association “Moi Jeu Tri”, the populations of the Commune Golfe 2 can count on the Town Hall to maintain a healthy living environment.

In the Commune Golfe 2, the municipal authorities launch the VAL’IDEE project of the association “Moi Jeu Tri” by officially opening the first Ecobox kiosk. The latter is located in the Bè Civic Center market. The aim of the initiative is to structure the collection and recovery sectors for products from the solar sector and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). The opening ceremony was chaired by the Acting Mayor, Komi EDOH. Ecobox, the name of this first kiosk as part of the project mentioned above, offers a Gulf 2 to buy solid waste.

For its first phase, a total of 5 boxes will be placed in different areas within the territory of the Municipality. This initiative will create employment for young people. At this initial stage, it is estimated that 15 young people from the County Borough have been trained to run the boxes. The populations within the territorial jurisdiction of Gulf 2 are invited to converge their solid waste towards the sites where the 5 boxes are placed.

Gulf 2, a municipality that looks towards the future

During the commencement ceremony, Komi EDOH, the interim Mayor did not hide his joy as well as the joy of his colleagues. For this municipal authority, transformation and recycling today is becoming a major global initiative, and so already, there are jobs for young people, there is cleanliness, and I believe we are in heaven.

“This is the happy commune. We are becoming a model municipality, a green municipality and therefore I believe that we will not regret the choice we made to accept this project, and that our municipality can support it. Conversion and recycling today is becoming a big global business, and so already, there are jobs for young people, there is cleanliness, and I think we are in heaven,” the aforementioned interim Mayor told Togotimes.

Managing the Ecobox Kiosk

For the implementation of the project, the Gulf Municipality 2 chose the VAL’IDEEE project from the association “Moi Jeu Tri” led by Edem d’Almeida. In the opinion of the Acting Mayor, Gulf Municipality 2 has already taken steps to support the project.

“It’s a matter of getting organized and our technical services are working hard, in Gulf 2 everything is possible and measures have already been taken to support this project,” noted Mr Komi EDOH who wants to be is encouraging when calling for raising awareness about solid waste management, to the extent that “the partnership between us and the Moi Jeu Tri Association also aims to develop socio-educational projects in schools for waste management. Because if we succeed from the ground up in mastering this youth, considering that they are called to be the next generation of tomorrow, they will know how to manage waste, the waste will not be in chaos and we will avoid’ the problems we have that are linked to the anarchy of waste”.

Commit to a sustainable development approach with partners on the move

For the Association’s project manager, “there can be no better motivation than to truly commit to this sustainable development approach and provide a solution to efficiently manage waste.” According to Mr Edem d’Almeida, more than forty Ecoboxes will be placed across the territorial jurisdiction of Gulf 2 for the first phase while continuing to mobilize partners because the challenge is huge.

“(…). For the municipality of Golfe 2 in this period, it benefits from five Eco-boxes. Because it is questions of choice, progress, availability of land, mobilization of public actors, it is a mixture of everything. It’s not just a matter of saying that the Gulf Municipality takes 2 but there are a certain number of timetables. We have contacted all the Mayors, we are going to the place where the project is ready to start, especially as there is a strong will from the Mayor, the late Dr James Amaglo,” explained Mr Edem d’Almeida. And to note “it is indeed an entrepreneurial project. It’s about showing that waste is a resource, not just a resource for recycling, not only do we make new things with old things, but the idea is also to provide waste as a solution, a solution to our weaknesses, a solution in terms of social innovation, job creation solution, and green entrepreneurship. So around this Ecobox which is a waste redemption kiosk, it is also a matter of structuring young people from the municipality, from the local authority in question, to undertake each other under a model of joint entrepreneurship, initiatives collaborative, to develop economic models and find income. -producing activities from waste. So more than waste, waste is a resource,” underlined M Edem d’Almeida.

TGT

Times Togo, Information in real time