Bonny Women Advocate Cleaner Environment Over Plastic Wastes

Women in Bonny have been called upon to ensure they properly dispose off their plastic wastes as a way to reduce pollution on the island.
The call was made by the Woman Leader of Bonny Kingdom, Helen Pepple during activities to mark the World Environment Day last Monday.
She said the theme for this year, “Beat Plastic Pollution” is apt as it would raise awareness and in the society, especially, among women to focus on the “very important roles they have to play in protecting our environment”.
The Bonny Kingdom Woman Leader while applauding women entrepreneurs across the globe for their invaluable contributions to job creation and career growth opportunities to their fellow women and men appealed to them to also prioritize how wastes from their businesses and premises are disposed.
“It has to be in line with established protocols for waste disposal in such a way as not to further impinge on the state of the environment. As women we have a role in protecting our environment.”
“Women all over the world are doing a great job in providing jobs and opportunity to grow in their careers for their fellow women and even the men in the society, but we have to also ensure that the wastes generated from the business we do and where we work are properly managed”, Pepple further remarked.
She explained that The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) advised on the need to dispose plastics so as not to affect habitats and natural processes, since such wastes can contribute to climate change, directly affecting millions of people’s livelihoods, food production capabilities and social well-being”.
With women increasingly taking up a larger market share among small and medium scale enterprises, and transition from metals to plastic, plastic wastes would increase and disposing off of them could pose as an existential challenge thus incumbent on women to join hands with other stakeholders to mitigate the situation.