Group Holds Waste Management Campaign At Rumuokwuta

An ecofriendly non-governmental organisation, Centre for Development Strategies, has ended its one-day sensitisation programme on waste management at the Rumuokwuta market Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.
Executive Director of the centre, Mrs Nancy Iheduru, said indiscriminate dumping of waste especially into drainages was responsible for series of flooding across Port Harcourt.
Iheduru, who is also the team leader of the group said the programme was to sensitise them on how to separate waste with a view to ensuring proper disposal. She blamed the indiscriminate dumping of waste on ignorance of RIWAMA policy on waste disposal, adding that solid and non solid waste should not be put together.
She says people lose money when waste are not properly separated.
Iheduru said waste caused sickness and led to toxic waste and called on the traders to ensure that the market was kept clean always.
Chairlady of Rumuokwuta market, Hon. (Mrs) Eunice Obire, said the traders were happy with the programme.
“It is a big plus for us market women. We want you to sustain it.”
She said the market also held environmental sanitation every Thursday.