Rivers Teenager Develops Apps To Check Plastic Waste

A 12-year old Rivers teenager, Master David Nengi Ayomide Pepple, has developed an application to check the indiscriminate dumping of plastic waste.
The initiative, according to the Rivers teenager was part of his neighbour to neighbour plastic hunting campaign.
The campaign was to enable people donate plastic waste for his charity project.
Master Pepple, in the last five years embarked on series of campaigns against the indiscriminate dumping of plastic waste.
The campaign has attracted him several national and international awards.
The latest was the Indomie Ambassadorial Award which was presented to him in Lagos.
Speaking in an interview with The Tide, Pepple who hails from Opobo Town in Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Area said the move was part of his effort to sensitise the people on the dangers of plastic waste.
He said plastic waste destroys acquatic lives as well as contributes to global warming.
The young environmentalist said Plastic waste contains substances which are dangerous to living organisms.
He said plastic waste when discriminately dumped can enter the soil to contaminate the underground water, there by constituting danger to man and other living organisms.
Pepple said he created the App to enable people donate plastic waste to him to fund his charity project.
According to him, his campaign aims at reducing, recycling and re use of plastic waste.
He said out of billions of plastic wastes thrown away every year, only 12 percent has been recycled and pleaded with the government to make use of the opportunities provided by the App to reduce plastic waste.
Giving more insights into the dangers of plastic waste to the society, pepple said, Nigeria was losing millions of naira as a result of billions of plastic waste entering the ocean yearly.
According to him, since 1961, 8.3 billion tons of plastic waste have been thrown into the ocean while only 12 percent of these have been recycled.
He said the government should look into this App, develope it and make it a national instrument to curb plastic pollution.

By: John Bibor & Oribim Ibama