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Women Capacity Building Ecocent in 2022, successfully mobilised and formalised more than 250 women in e-waste and scrap trade at Suame Magazine, Kumasi, Ghana-West Africa. This is the first project that recognises the contribution of women on a waste value chain in Ghana. The association was named, Ladies in E-Waste and Scrap Association (LEWSA). After the formalisation, LEWSA was incorporated into the mother association, known as Suame Magazine Industrial Development Organisation (SMIDO). Currently, similar project is ongoing, to mobilize and formalized the trade of all female mobile scrap and e-waste collectors on the value chain in Kumasi. Unlike LEWSA group, these women have no scrap shop on the yard.  They are hawkers of scraps, suppling (raw materials) to fabricator in and around Suame Magazine enclave.    

Business Development Services Ecocent shares her skills and experience in operating a successful business with other start-ups by facilitating training programs. In 2023, we successfully coached 10 poultry farmers and aggregators in the GIZ AgricBiz SME Loop in Ashanti Region, through Phillnita. We consulted as business trainers, coaches, and pitch experts in the 2023 UNDP/ABSA Innovation Challenge.  In this same year we consulted as business trainers in the Ghana Jobs and Skills Project (GJSP), funded by world bank, and implemented by Ghana Enterprise Agency through Empretec Ghana. GJSP project spanned to 2024. From 2023 to date, Ecocent has diagnosed more than 100 business in Obuase as part of the Business Acceleration and Sustainable Project (BAST), implemented by Empretec Ghana and funded by MasterCard foundation, ABSA Bank and AngloGold Ashanti.    

Plastic Recycling Ecocent is well known for her innovative ability in recycling. Ongoing project repurposes PET bottles into plastic waste collection bins as part of our senior high school waste segregation project. Our most recent project is the recycling of food grade PET waste. We shred and/or bale PET bottles, saved from the environment. We also recycle HDPE, PP and other plastics.  

Ecocent transforms recycled plastic waste into building materials for several construction purposes, namely, blocks, bricks, slabs etc. Using our own designed and fabricated technology we able to upcycle millions of plastic waste every year as raw material to feed the building and construction industry. 

This project took place in Tamale, the northern region of Ghana, to test and assess the performance of the input/output assessment tool of materials process flow on small scattered scrapyards.