Last week we all met in good spirit for our board meeting of the Special Treat Project in Accra, Ghana. We decided to ship at least 10 containers of Dutch technology to Ghana for the construction of the water treatment plant. Preparations are in full swing. Please check out www.rp-wa.com for more information on the Special Treat Project.
Mafraq Clean Tech Campus
GC cooperates with GreenfieldCities to develop the Mafraq Clean Tech Campus project in Jordan. GreenfieldCities helps the global forced migration challenges. They do this by developing sustainable urban areas in regions of origin of migrants. The Mafraq Clean Tech Campus in Jordan is such an urban area. The goal is to create 1.500 high end jobs and a similar number of supporting jobs for local Jordanians and temporary Syrian residents in a truly complete urban setting. The Campus is fully compliant with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and also serves as a pilot project for repeated implementation world-wide. GC has cooperated with the concept development and made a first impression of the urban plan.
Visit to the Shell Technology Centre
I had a great meaningful visit to the Shell Technology Centre in Bangalore India. We brainstormed how we can turn waste into energy. Impressive to see the concentration of knowledge at this centre and how we can initiate new business models using our Dutch perspective. We will continue to work on what we have learned at the centre so we can implement new knowledge in our projects for India and Ghana.
The Special Treat Project is online
The Special Treat Project is online! www.rp-wa.com MDF West Africa, J.Stanley-Owusu (JSO) and ourselves have established Recycling Power West Africa Limited for the implementation of this project and upcoming business opportunities. The Special Treat Project is a waste-to-value project - designed for Ghanaian needs and priorities. The project is driven by public and private parties from Ghana and the Netherlands, and aims to improve the living conditions of 300,000 people in Ghana. In de context of the project 6 public sanitation blocks, a waste water transfer station and a waste water treatment & re-use plant will become operational between 2016 and 2020. The Special Treat produces irrigation water, electricity, biogas and compost out of liquid and organic waste.
