Agbogloshie landfill is the largest Land fill in Ghana. Rubber and plastic products are the most common materials found on the dumpsite.This explains the siting of a rubber and plastic recycling industry on the dumspsite. What this means is that if recycling starts at the source of creation,there would be no or few plastic and rubber materials here. Waste is indeed a dirty gold considering the cost savings on disposal and revenue from recycling.But this is never the case, these young men and women would have to make ends meet by gathering and sorting out the waste on the dumpsite.Though recycling is a livelihood,these young men and women does it in an unprotective and unhygienic way.What this means is that individual households could make money out of their waste just by separating plastics from organic waste.he most prominent waste on the Agbogbloshie dumpsite is E waste. Most common among them are broken television sets,refrigerators,computers, printers ,and automobile parts.
Most of these machines are often broken but are still allowed through our ports into the country.

Broken down vehicles and spare parts are also abandoned here.
The Odawna river which flows through this dumpsite is highly polluted. It has been a stagnant pool of water over a decade due to pollution.This is the root cause of flooding during heavy rainfall in Accra.It is filled with waste and infiltration of chemicals from the burning of electronic waste materials.

Jonathan is 15 years old and a school drop out. He tells me he started this work when he was ten years old.He collects electronic waste and burns it for the copper in them for sale.He does this without a protective mask.
Not only does Jonathan, but this is the life of many other teenagers in Ghana.The fumes consists of sulpher dioxides and other gases which causes lung diseases in humans.

Meanwhile many of the people have found use for the broken refrigerators. They have used them to create shelters where they live with their families.
Yes the stone that the builder rejected has become the corner stone. Similar it portrays how every waste that is created could be turned into a commodity for use. Let us develop the concept of recycling waste from origin.
Remember the three Rs. Reduce ,Reuse and Recycle