TidyUp's Solid waste transfer station uses state-of -the-art German made waste compaction  and recycling machines to help rid the country from filth. With the support from Premium Bank’s Help Station, TidyUp was able to complete the  construction of its Waste Transfer Station and develop its business management and operations model.

The Help station is a vibrant SME business support and entrepreneurship development  initiative of Premium Bank.  Its focus is to provide businesses with an unparalleled support service, a high level of  engagement and capacity building aimed at ensuring their growth, resilience and  competitiveness.

Speaking at the launch, Mr Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, Minister of Business Development lauded  Premium Bank’s quest to provide businesses in Ghana with an unparalleled support service, a high level of engagement and capacity building aimed at ensuring the growth, credit  worthiness and investment attraction of the businesses under their care.

“With a focus that goes beyond financing, to include capacity building, marketing &  publicity, network building and business growth, the Help station aims to support 10,000  SMEs and Entrepreneurs in Ghana,” he said. “I entreat all startups or existing small –medium sized businesses to take full advantage  of the benefits The Help station is currently offering, to grow and sustain their  businesses,” he said.

He said TidyUp state-of -the-art technology from Germany was providing an innovative way  to manage waste disposal in Weija-Gbawe enclave and its surrounding communities.   “This is a real solution to one of the many problems we face as a society,“ he added. He said the Ministry of Business Development would ensure the provision of an enabling  environment for the successful development of all businesses, most especially those that  had successfully passed through the able hands of Premium Bank and the Help station.

Mr Kwasi Tumi, the Managing Director Premium Bank, said the bank’s insights into the  acute business needs of the SMEs had enabled it to devise total solutions for the often forgotten but most critical sector of the economy. He said the Bank saw the potential in Tidy-Up Ghana’s business and “leveraging on our experience and expertise, offered what in our opinion was the support needed through our  business delivery channel, The Help Station, and the end result is what has brought us  here together today”.

He said the bank was ready to support SMEs through the Help Station our unique SME  network that helps our clients address the challenges that makes financial institutions  shy away from SMEs.  Mr Steven Kofi Ampofo, Chief Executive Officer TidyUp Ghana, said the company was  committed to environmental sanitation.

He said solid waste management was an expensive venture especially transportation to the

final disposal sites, which were getting farther away from the sources of generation.  Accra alone generates about 3000 tons of solid waste per day. Out of this figure only  about 70 per cent is collected and this accounts for the heaps of solid waste we see in  the cities and towns mostly near market centres and low income or densely populated  areas.

“TidyUp is here to change the status quo by turning this enclave into a waste industrial  park.

“We would recycle papers, cardboards, plastics, Styrofoam and convert PET bottles into flakes and mould them back into bottles. We would also recycle glass and use it for sand  paper,” Mr Ampofo said. Mr Ampofo said with the right mindset on solid waste, incomes could be generated from  recovery of useful items while protecting the environment at the same time.  He appealed to the government to encourage entrepreneurs in the solid waste management  business to improve the status quo and to put up recovery and recycling plants.

Mr Ampofo expressed appreciation to Premium Bank through for the unparalleled financial  and support service.