Recycle Up! Ghana

Recycle Up! Ghana seeks to increase pupils’ awareness of environmental issues, to provide a better understanding of the potential adverse societal effects implied by excessive plastic waste pollution as well as to develop a sustainable, local recycling solution preventing such. These objectives are to be accomplished through the project’s main element: a two-week long summer camp. The idea of Recylce Up! Ghana was outlined in 2014 by a joint discussion of the initiators and co-founders from the mother organization Technology without Borders which is a registered NGO in Germany and Ghana: Torben Fischer, Manuel Schulze, Alhassan Baba Muniru and Sampson Oboh. About 20 European-Ghanaian team leaders are working on this initiative now. There are also experts, key stakeholders, local authorities and partners backing this initiative. The RecycleUp! Ghana Initiative is driven by the German-Ghanaian NGO Technology without Borders (Technik ohne Grenzen e.V.) which has more than 6 years of project experience in waste management and other fields. Both European and Ghanaian members of the NGO support the initiative’s activities throughout the year, by providing the Recycle Up! Ambassadors with mentoring, equipment and contacts to local waste management companies as well as municipalities