SEDI Commences Recycling Of Water Sachets

The Scientific Equipment Development Institute (SEDI) in Enugu has begun recycling water sachets into other products.

   Mr Solomon Ani, SEDI’s Head of Marketing, told newsmen in Enugu that the institute was producing shopping and garbage bags as well as jericans from the sachets.

“We have introduced what we call waste to wealth programme starting with recycling of water sachet that litter the streets of Enugu.

“It is an interesting thing in the sense that it creates jobs for the youth and removes nuisance from the streets,’’ Ani said.

He urged state and local governments to buy machines for recycling sachets, stressing that it was affordable considering the output.

“The equipment is what state and local governments can afford. It is not difficult to operate and maintain.

“It is cheaper than what we call the virgin material they get from petro-chemical industries,’’ he said.

Ani said the institute acquired the machine from an overseas company with the hope of replicating it through reverse engineering so that there would be no need to import from abroad.

The marketing manager said that SEDI had also fabricated a machine for producing a wide range of spare-parts, including top cylinders for pistons, crankshaft and vulcanising vehicle tyres.

He said that it was also on the verge of producing engine blocks using aluminum alloys.

“If you look at technology movement now, you observe that most vehicle spare-parts are made of aluminum alloys, unlike in the past when they used heavy iron castings,’’ he said.

Ani urged the government to invest in infrastructure engineering by building more industrial centres and providing casting machines which the private sector could afford.

The market head commended Enugu State Government for reviving technical colleges in the state and described it as a step in the right direction.