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Living Labs
Dynamic spaces hosted by circular bioeconomy businesses and research centers that co-own the hub. Experience cutting-edge research, education, collaboration, and hands-on training all in one place! Click to Discover more.
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Trimark Aquaculture Center.
This enterprise specializes in safe wastewater-fed aquaculture and greenhouse vegetable production. Its initial success led to expansion, and it now encompasses aquaculture production methods using concrete tanks, bio floc systems, and recirculatory aquaculture systems.
Photo Credit: TAC
Showcase & Training Opportunities:
- Greenhouse Operation and Management
- Fish Farm Operations and Management using Treated
Wastewater-Fed Ponds/Tanks/Biofl oc/Recirculatory - Aquaculture System and Waste Stabilization Pond and
Triple Digester Operation and management
Research for Innovation Scaling:
- Optimization of Wastewater treatment process for
fi sh production - Wastewater-fed operations on natural cycles in the
culture ponds and receiving waters.
- Efficient and low-cost treatment options.
- Feasibility of reusing harvested sludge from the triple
bio-digester for composting or briquette use. - Survival and growth performance of vegetable crops
cultured directly on wastewater-fed ponds through
aquaponic system. - Concentration of sex hormonal contaminants in
wastewater-fed ponds and their eff ects on fi sh
reproduction.
JVL-YKMA Recycling Plant.
A Public-Private Partnership between Jekora Ventures Limited and the Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly that produces compost and briquettes from waste for food, energy, and a cleaner environment.
Photo Credit: JVL-YKMA Recycling Plant
Showcase & Training Opportunities:
Co-composting & composting, Faecal sludge treatment and Briquette production.
Research for Innovation Scaling:
- Composting business optimization
- Production of briquette from different feedstock (Characterization studies)
- Improvement of dewatering process on unplanted sludge drying beds
- Scaling pathways to ensure sustainable circular economy business model implementation.
- Market research
Biotechnology and Nuclear Agriculture Research Institute (BNARI)
Integrates the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) lifecycle, into waste management to transform organic waste into protein-rich larvae for animal feed and nutrient-rich compost.
Research for Innovation Scaling:
- Evaluation of potential substrates for mass rearing
- Evaluation of frass for soil nutrient management
- Use of BSF-products in animal nutrition and health
- Extraction of chitin, chitosan, and melanin from BSF.
Showcase & Training Opportunities:
Biology and benefits of BSF technology, mass rearing, housing and farm management practices, processing of BSF larvae, processing of BSF frass and compost production.
Photo Credit: BNARI
Safisana Ghana Limited
Recycling faecal sludge and organic waste from vulnerable communities and industries into renewable energy and compost. The business model operates as a utility and offers governments and industries a circular and cost-efficient solution for waste treatment.
Research for innovation & Scaling
Any research to enrich operations in the renewable energy and composting field (Circular economy space).
Photo Credit: Safisana Ghana Limited
Showcase & Training Opportunities:
- Renewable energy production
- Composting
- Wastewater Treatment
- Environmental Laboratory Analysis
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Marketing and Sales (Agribusiness)
Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP)
This Material Recovery Facility facility transforms Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) into compost and recyclables within a closed-loop system by employing the state-of-the-art technologies.
Photo Credit: ACARP
Showcase & Training Opportunities:
- Composting process.
- MSW management (including mechanized sorting and Material recovery system)
- Plastics Pelletization
- Health and safety
Research for innovation & Scaling
- Efficient composting technology
- Sustainable material recovery technology
- New product development i.e. alternative organic
fertilizer to support plant health towards building resilience
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Institute of Industrial Research (CSIR-IIR)
Developing and manufacturing context-specific technologies to support circular bioeconomy business model implementation.
Photo Credit: CSIR-IIR
Showcase & Training Opportunities:
- Technology and local manufacturing of BSF production facility.
- Biogas Production (demonstration scale)
- Green Irrigation
- Various CBE demonstration for wider uptake
- Mechanical engineering and fabrication services
Research for innovation & Scaling
Any research to optimize operations and ensure sustainability is welcome.
Clean Team Toilets
Providing safe, affordable container base toilets for low-income families and institutions (schools). The used toilet facility is collected as waste in sealed containers for safe composting.
Photo Credit: Clean Team Toilet
Research for innovation & Scaling
- Route optimization.
- Revenue collection optimization
- Odour reducing Additive development from NBS.
- Waste to resource development.
Training & Demonstration Opportunities
- Application of GIS in WASH.
- Improving CBS toilet production and usage
- Sustainable co-composting business models.
- Improving Customer Experience in the WASH sector.
Our locations & Operational Hours
Trimark Aquaculture Centre
Kumasi, Ghana
Opening days & hours
Monday – Saturday
8:00 – 16:00 (GMT)
JVL-YKMA Recycling Plant
Akorley-Somanya, Ghana
Opening days & hours
Monday – Saturday
8:00 – 16:00 (GMT)
Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP)
Adjen Kotoku, Ghana
Opening days & hours
Monday – Saturday
8:00 – 17:00 (GMT)
Biotechnology and Nuclear Agriculture Research Institute (BNARI)
Kwabenya, Ghana
Opening days & hours
Monday – Saturday
8:00 – 16:30 (GMT)
Safisana Ghana Limited
Adjei-Kojo Ashaiman, Ghana
Opening days & hours
Monday – Saturday
8:00 – 17:00 (GMT)
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Institute of Industrial Research (CSIR-IIR)
Accra, Ghana
Opening days & hours
Monday – Saturday
8:00 – 17:00 (GMT)
Clean Team
Tafo-Nhyieso, Kumasi, Ghana.
Opening days & hours
Monday – Saturday
8:00 – 17:00 (GMT)