Waste To Wealth Containers Arrive PH

18 containers of equipment for the construction of a world class sea  waste management project in Port Harcourt  have arrived  Rivers State.
The project, being  undertaken  by African  Circle  (MARPOL), also known as  African  pollution management company is  expected to  keep  the sea clean.
General  Manager, Eastern  Operations, Olajide  Oluwagemi  told newsmen  that the containers which arrived from   France are components of waste management facilities.
“We have received   equipment of over 18 containers from France. These are components of a waste management complex, receiving components treatment  segments.
This operates  a waste to wealth system” Oluwayemi said. He said that the International  Maritime Organisation (Imo), banned  the discharg of waste into the waters at sea ports around the world, adding that, “instead the  waste is to be  transferred  to waste management facilities  which  process it and can even get  fuel  and   other products out of the waste in a “waste to  wealth concept”.
“We handle  any ship  discharge, not bunkering products”, he said.
Oluwayemi further  said that the company is the first in Nigeria.
“We are the first in Nigeria,  because Nigeria signed the convention, some of the challenges we face include,  sabotage  by those  who were  doing  it illegally by collecting waste”.
He said that  those  sabotaging them, do not have the capacity to manage waste, but simply turn round to dump them in the water, the same thing the  law tried to  prevent.
The General Manager also confirmed that work is in progress in the complex adding that, the company intends to complete the groundwork with a view to installing the components that are on ground.
He used the occasion to commend the Nigerian  Ports Authority (NPA), for being  supportive.
It would be recalled that former Head of   State,  Abdulsalami, Abubakar, had recently led a delegation to inspect the project  in Port Harcourt.