A new 100-tonne-per-day plastic waste recycling plant in Accra is set to create about 1,500 direct and indirect jobs across waste collection, sorting, transport, and plant operations.
The jobs projection was announced after the Accra Metropolitan Assembly signed a binding feedstock agreement with Numatter Recycling Technologies Limited to secure a daily supply of 100 metric tonnes of plastic waste to Ghana’s first industrial-scale pyrolysis plant.
The Accra Mayor, Mr. Michael Kpakpo Allotey, said the agreement helps reposition plastic waste as an economic resource, adding that reducing plastics in drains will also ease flooding and improve sanitation in the metropolis.
He stated that AMA will coordinate and channel post-collection plastic waste from across Accra to the plant once it becomes operational.
Numatter CEO, Mr. Kelvin Boateng, said the job opportunities will cover the full value chain and will run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in line with the government’s 24-hour economy policy.
Hydroxy Systems Technologies’ CEO, Rakesh Reddy, said the binding agreement moves the project from promise to implementation, adding that the company’s patented closed-loop pyrolysis technology will be deployed at the facility to convert plastics into fuel and other industrial products.
Mr. Reddy noted that the success of the project will show other African countries that hydrocarbon recovery from waste is commercially viable and replicable.
The project was first announced in September 2025 under a Memorandum of Understanding; hence, the new agreement now makes it a legally binding, commercially anchored arrangement.
Faustina Naa Ayele Johnson –ISD
