{"id":204982,"date":"2025-08-19T04:19:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-we-can-reduce-oil-bill-by-producing-fuel-from-waste-plastics-prof-dankwah\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T04:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:19:25","slug":"ghana-we-can-reduce-oil-bill-by-producing-fuel-from-waste-plastics-prof-dankwah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-we-can-reduce-oil-bill-by-producing-fuel-from-waste-plastics-prof-dankwah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: We Can Reduce Oil Bill By Producing Fuel From Waste Plastics &#8211; Prof. Dankwah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">A Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa, in the Western Region, Professor James R. Dankwah, has stated that Ghana can reduce its energy bills by producing fuels from waste plastics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;The production of fuels like diesel and petrol from waste plastics would accrue huge savings for the energy sector,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">He added that, &#8220;Waste plastics have both advantages and disadvantages, but those disadvantages will come if you fail to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508140540.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa, in the Western Region, Professor James R. Dankwah, has stated that Ghana can reduce its energy bills by producing fuels from waste plastics. &#8220;The production of fuels like diesel and petrol from waste plastics would accrue huge savings for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7292,52144,7570,4508,4509,257,4221,17106,8295,6416,8391,254,11569],"class_list":["post-204982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-dankwah","tag-fuel","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-plastics","tag-producing","tag-prof","tag-reduce","tag-south-africa-today","tag-waste"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}