NGO Wants Effective Sensitisation On Waste Management

Clean-Up Nigeria (CUN), a non governmental organisation, has urged all tiers of government and relevant stakeholders to engage in effective sensitisation for positive result on waste management in the country.
CUN’s National Coordinator Mr Ene Baba-Owoh made the call while speaking with the Tide source in Abuja.
Baba-Owoh said that the sensitisation would go a long way to address environmental problems as well as improve waste management.
“Waste management is a major problem that has affected significant number of people in the country.
“I so much believe that something good can be done through sensitisation by government, individuals, groups, relevant stakeholders, to improve the quality of the Nigerian environment.
“Waste management is one of my organisation’s mission, because we have discovered that it is a challenge that affects everybody and is supposed to be everyone’s problem.
“We generate waste everyday, so, the way and manner we generate waste determines the way we should tackle it.
“We all have roles to play, part of it is to educate people around us, let them know the importance of ways and manners we dispose our waste.
“Let them also know the importance of keeping waste bins around to enable them dispose their waste properly.
“Also, we should educate people on three ways of disposing their waste; let them know that waste can be reduced, reused, and recycled.
“In reducing, reusing and recycling the waste, you select waste such as plastic, papers, metals, nylon, among others.
“These waste can be sold to recycling companies who will as well convert the waste to useful materials, thereby turning wastes to wealth.
“Meanwhile, there are other waste which cannot be used or converted; in this case, you gather them in a landfill, bury them.
“In the process of burying them, you are trying to bring them to a usable position, thereby turning them to manure in future.