Anita Afum, an Environmental Health Officer and Disease Control Analyst, is upcycling End-of-Life Tyres (ELTs) into sofas, centre tables, wall chairs and bucket centre tables.
It is a business model she said she learnt during her days as a trainee student at the Accra School of Hygiene in 2017.
“As an environmental health officer, I realised that we Ghanaians don’t know how to dispose of our tyre waste properly, but I later found out that there are several consumables that we can use these tyres for and make money from them too,” Afum said.
“Usually, people prefer to b...
