Resources From Effective Waste Management Can Finance Free Shs

There is no qualm that the future advantages for free SHS for this country would be colossal. Free SHS is a necessity and an intelligent investment to be made in this country. Just imagine how this country would have been if free SHS policy was implemented 40 years ago. We would have been competing with some developed countries by now.

Listening to comments from experts and politicians, it sounds almost all are in support of free SHS but the major challenges are the source of funding and its sustainability. There have been many suggestions but I strongly believe, this is the moment we as a country need to take certain opportunities seriously. Our dependency on oil exploration in this country has blinded us into focusing on other potential yields which I believe can produce sustainable yield and better opportunities than the oil production. There are many opportunities in this country that have not been harnessed effectively to support the economy and one of such opportunity is the current structure we have laid down in managing waste in this country.

Waste is a resource which would end when the last man dies. It would be the greatest resource of worth when harnessed effectively. Many developed countries have produced sustainable resources and financial gains just because they have put up structures that are accruing huge financial gains from waste management. Many are also turning their waste into other productive resources which are cutting down their dependency on non-renewable resources and creating sustainable jobs for the unemployed. Why can’t we do the same as a country?

Waste are being thrown into river bodies and gutters, causing irreparable situation which are draining our resources. Huge sums of money are pumped on sanitation and collection of waste. Environmental related diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, cholera, which could be easily prevented by providing measures to manage our waste are claiming lives. Waste generation has become cheaper and there is no economic incentive of minimizing waste in this country.

As the country begin to embark on free SHS, which would help the nation both directly and indirectly, it is the full responsibility of every Ghanaian to support in executing this project. One way we can all support is through restructuring our waste management system such that every waste generated would attract cost to support the free SHS. As we are benefiting from the services from proper waste management in this country, we would be supporting the education of our children toward a better future.

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