A Review of the Triple Gains of Waste and the Way Forward for Ghana

Table 2

Types and nature of solid wastes and their recycling and utilization potential.

Types of Solid Waste	Sources	Potential Products
Agro Waste (Organic nature)	Baggage, rice and wheat, straw and husk, cotton stalk, saw mill waste, vegetable residues, sisal, groundnut, nut, shell	Particle boards, insulation boards, wall panels, printing paper and roofing sheet, fuel, bricks, acid proof, cement, polymer composite, cement board
Industrial waste (inorganic)	Coal combustion residues, steel slag, bauxite red mud, construction debris	Cement, bricks, blocks, tiles, paint, concrete, ceramics product, wood substitute products
Mining or mineral waste	Coal washeries waste, mining overburden waste, tailing from ion, copper, zinc, gold and aluminium industries	Bricks, tiles, lightweight aggregate, fuel
Non-hazardous other process waste	Waste gypsum, lime sludge, limestone waste, marble processing residues, broken glass and ceramics, kiln dust	Cement clinker, super sulphate cement, hydraulic binder, blocks, bricks, cement, fibrous gypsum boards, gypsum plaster
Hazardous waste	Metallurgical residues, galvanizing waste, tannery waste	Cement, bricks, tiles ceramics and board

Source. Pappu et al. [42].