The Water and Waste team have published their first paper which quantifies mismanaged plastic waste, from household consumption of packaged water (water sold in bottles or bags) and cooking oil, in Greater Accra, Ghana and all Kenyan cities. Jim Wright and his colleagues applied novel methods, using nationally representative household …
After nearly two years of virtual project meetings and collaborations, where we all became very familiar with each other from the shoulders upwards (or sometimes just foreheads), our Ghanian, Kenyan and UK teams finally came together in Accra on the 12th September for a week long project meeting! Led by …
‘Aboboyaa’s’ (tricycles) are used by some waste collectors in Greater Accra who charge households a fee for the scheduled collection of their waste. Within selected enumeration areas, quadrants are used by enumerators to measure areas where waste has been burnt. Open piles of dumped household waste are common practice across …
Dr Pete Shaw (Southampton University) recently presented new work at the 2022 Sixth Symposium on Circular Economy and Urban Mining in Capri. This work, developed and trialled by the Water and Waste team, examines how the plastic resins used for packaging can be identified using simple observations and tests. Initial …
Dr. Lorna Grace Okotto (Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology) led a paper at Amsterdam International Water Week, highlighting how geospatial data can be used to support robust post hoc impact evaluations. Her paper looked at how control areas were selected for an evaluation of the delegated management …
In November 2021, several members of the project team developed an online public engagement event as part of the UK Festival of Social Science to highlight the challenges of monitoring water and waste service delivery. With Dr. Mawuli Dzodzomenyo (Ghana School of Public Health) chairing the debate, Dr. Simon Damkjaer …
The University of Ghana School of Public Health held a workshop in Accra, one of the two cities that are the focus of project fieldwork, to disseminate project activities and get input from key stakeholders into the project’s detailed design. Dr. Mawuli Dzodzomenyo of the School of Public Health spoke …
In common with many projects, we are adapting our workplan to meet the emerging information needs for tackling COVID-19. For example, we believe that there may be scope to look at the extent of discarded Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when we carry out our environmental transect work and thereby how …
