Welcome to our recycling plant in Kumasi, Ghana
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Here comes a story on the journey of the project
In 2017, after seven pioneering years, Safisana opened its first recycling plant in Ashaiman, a community in the Greater Accra area of over 250,000 inhabitants, 90 per cent of whom live below the poverty line.
Commissioned by the local municipality, and the Ministries of Energy, Food and Agriculture, the Safisana plant was the first waste to resource facility in West Africa, financed by the African Development Bank, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and private funds. With the circular economy being firmly still in the theoretic phase, we invested in our relationships with the critical partners, and we learnt what was needed to achieve a truly local approach.
Today the recycling plant located in Ashaiman has grown into an economically stable, locally managed company – run by a team of over 30 highly skilled local specialists. A blueprint for replication.
Read the full story of the Safisana Journey
Production capacity
9,700
tonnes organic waste
treated per year
3,600
tonnes of faecal waste
treated per year
300 MwH
energy produced per year
91,000
Kg produced per year
31,000 people benefit from improved personal and public health due to our improved sanitation and fecal sludge treatment services.
35,000 people benefit from a cleaner living and working environment due to the collection and treatment of organic waste by Safisana
2,300 people gain access to renewable energy produced by Safsana;
11,700 farmers benefit from the use of organic fertilizer produced by Safisana
Meet our beneficiaries
Meet Miss Agyeiwaa, Food Vendor at
local Ashaiman Food Market
'Our work environment is cleaner now. We save money instead of paying to the informal waste collectors. This is because Safisana doesn’t charge us for collecting the waste. Their frequent collection is helping to save us from bad odour and some disturbance from rodents we used to experience in the past'
Watch the video about the renovated Ashaiman Market
'I love Safisana. Our faecal matter is recycled into useful products like electricity and biofertilizer. Safisana educates us on how to manage our toilets through hygiene training and on top of it now upgraded my toilet for the second time to a standard that is attracting more customers' Read more...
Meet local farmer Kelly Ampofo from Unique Vegetable Farms Limited
'Ever since I started using Safisana’s Asase Gyefo compost three years ago, I get better yields from my crops in my greenhouse than before'
Meet Kwabena Ampadu Otu - Danquah
Former Director of Renewable Energy
at the Energy Commission
'Proper waste treatment supports climate change response, waste management, and sustainable development simultaneously. We appreciate Safiana’s close-loop, circular economy approach and we would continue to work together to expand the model in other parts of Ghana'
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Our local partners
Contact us
Safisana Holding,
Weesp, The Netherlands
+31 (0) 294 773857
info@safisana.org
