Managers of the Accra Compost and Recycling plant have told Citi News they have still not received funds from government to enable them reopen the facility after over three weeks of closure.
The recycling plant was shut down due to government�s inability to pay for work for over two years.
The shut down cost 100 of its workers their jobs.
In an interview with Citi News, Marketing Manager at the facility, Michael Padi Tuwor said: �They have given us to end of next week. We are very positive that come next week this will come to an end�
The managers of the plant had earlier revealed more workers will be laid off if government does not intervene early.
The compost recycling plant processes about 60% percent of the waste generated in Accra.
With the plant shut down, the pressure on the only landfill site at Kpone which was built to serve the Tema metropolis and its environs is unbearable.
Even though the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) promised to make ready a new landfill site by 2015, the manager of the Kpone landfill site, Joseph Duneebon is worried the dump site will be full and refuse collectors in Tema would have to travel far to dispose refuse.
�Our fear is that they will fill it up and when they get their land fill site then we wouldn�t have,� said Mr. Duneebon. �We will not have a land fill site when Accra gets a new one.�
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