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Expert Chides Low Investment In Waste Recycling
A town planning consultant, Mr Makinde Ogunleye,on Tuesday bemoaned the country’s low investment in waste recycling plants.
He said that waste recycling could be a major source of revenue generation.
Ogunleye, a former Chairman of Lagos State Branch of Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP), said that the environment would also be cleaner if Nigerians took waste recycling more seriously.
He told newsmen in Lagos that solid wastes that were not being recycled were aggravating flooding in the country.
According to him, many waste materials that could not be recycled were causing hazards to the environment.
“Nylons constitute about 70 per cent of the blockage of the water channels, thereby causing the flooding we experience.
“We should learn from other countries that are netting huge revenues from waste recycling and reducing economic wastage in terms of environmental degradation,” he said.
The expert advised government at all levels to build more waste recycling plants as a way of providing employment to youths who scavenge.
“People can generate revenues for themselves if they appreciate monetary gains from sorting wastes,” he said.
Ogunleye said that products of recycled wastes would be useful to many industries, particularly in the construction sector.
“For instance, somebody constructed three bedrooms with bottles in Kaduna and another person used the same bottles to construct a school library,” he said.
Ogunleye advised that more states should enforce their environment protection laws.
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