The Lagos State authorities has urged all residents to take part within the state’s waste-to-wealth initiative to advertise a round financial system. This initiative goals to scale back the quantity of waste ending up in landfills, encourage the reuse of waste and promote recycling of waste for a sustainable surroundings.
Making the decision throughout a tv discuss present the Commissioner for Setting and Water Assets, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, emphasised the significance of constructing a waste administration tradition that every one residents should undertake for correct environmental sanitation.
Officers are visiting numerous areas throughout the state each Thursday, together with Ikeja, Badagry, Ikorodu, Lagos Island and Epe for the Trash for Money initiatives, which entails giving money to residents for his or her waste or gathering waste straight.
The federal government plans to ascertain everlasting gathering factors the place residents can change their trash for an inexpensive amount of money, to discourage illicit waste disposal on roads, setbacks, medians, open areas and canals.
The commissioner defined that the federal government was transitioning from the linear waste system of choose and drop, which is unsustainable and environmentally unfriendly, to a system the place waste is considered as a useful resource that may be transformed into vitality.
In line with him, over the previous two years, the federal government has been actively selling partnership with native and world stakeholders to transform waste into compost fertiliser or recycled plastics.
“Corporations similar to Lafarge are already utilizing waste to generate energy, and the state is exploring different modern methods to repurpose waste supplies,” he added.
Wahab stated the federal government signed a concession settlement with an organization known as Zoom Lion to transform 4,000 tonnes of day by day waste into wealth, with 55 per cent of waste to compost fertiliser and recyclables.
The efforts have considerably lowered the quantity of waste ending up in landfills, resulting in the decommissioning of sure landfills like Olososun, Ikeja and Soluos 3, Igando.
He reiterated that the federal government banned cart-pushers throughout the state and launched the waste-to-wealth initiative of their place. In line with him, it’s important for everybody to embrace the broader imaginative and prescient of a clear, secure, flood-free, and sustainable Lagos.
Current measures just like the ban on styrofoam and single-use plastics have already proven constructive ends in lowering drainage clogging and flash flooding, highlighting the significance of accountable waste administration practices.
In mild of the latest occasions, the federal government emphasises the necessity for residents to handle their waste responsibly, keep away from unlawful dumping, and chorus from constructing on canals, drainage alignments, wetlands and flood plain areas.
By working collectively to shift the narrative round trash to a helpful useful resource, Lagos can obtain its purpose of turning into an economically pleasant and sustainable megacity.
