Lagos recycles lower than 10% of waste generated: Waste managers

The Affiliation of Waste Managers Nigeria (AWAMN) says that lower than 10 per cent of waste generated in Lagos State is being recycled.

The president of the affiliation, David Oriyomi, stated this in Lagos on Friday night time, through the affiliation’s award/gala night time, with the theme ”Making Round Financial system a Actuality”.

“At the moment, lower than 10 per cent of waste generated in Lagos state is being recycled; by means of real collaboration with different stakeholders, we will speed up the speed of recycling,” he stated.

He stated that trying to the long run, “Waste can’t proceed to be buried within the dumpsites, because of the results this technique might have in future”.

In response to him, there’s a must make the idea of a round economic system a actuality.

“Waste is just a useful resource whether it is correctly collected and channelled in the direction of reuse or recycling. This comes at a value, and it should be viable as a enterprise for it to be sustainable.

“We have to put money into the suitable infrastructure, and all arms should be on deck. Our precedence should be to save lots of the environment, as we’re at risk of getting extra plastics than fish within the oceans.

“We clearly should have a rethink, and producers should take extra tasks, and the federal government should proceed to play its position as a regulator and a protector of the general public curiosity,” he stated.

Mr Oriyomi known as on the federal government to put money into sanitary engineered landfills, waste-to-compost, and waste-to-energy to save lots of the surroundings.

“Little question, 12 months 2022 has been a difficult one, particularly with the hyper inflationary enhance in diesel price, alternate fee, rate of interest and basic overhead, which noticed our operational price enhance tremendously.

“Thank God for the surviving spirit; although most of us are flaccid, now we have hope for a greater and brighter future,” the AWAMN president stated.

In his goodwill message, the managing director, Lagos State Waste Administration Authority (LAWMA), Ibrahim Odumboni, stated that regardless of the downturn skilled in 2022, the waste managers had carried out nicely.

The Ogun State Commissioner for Setting, Ola Oresanya, stated the waste managers had been the important thing to the sustainability of waste administration as a result of they had been the non-public sector concerned within the enterprise.

(NAN)