Waste Management

Waste Management

Lagos gov unveils Adopt-a-Bin programme with 40,000 bins

Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, unveiled the Adopt-a-Bin programme with an initial 40,000 standard bins deployed to households and...
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Waste Management

LAWMA commences fumigation of landfills

Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has commenced fumigation exercise at various dumpsites in the state, starting with the Solous landfill at Igando, to make...
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Waste Management

Oando Foundation, NCF promote Lagos community clean-up

The Oando Foundation of Nigeria, Sumitomo Chemical of Japan, with the technical support of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), organised a community clean-up exercise...
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Waste Management

Healthcare waste from COVID threatens environment – WHO

Tens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous strain on health care waste management systems around the...
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Waste Management

NESREA to develop plastic waste regulations to reflect current trends

The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) is to develop specialised national environmental regulations on plastic waste. This emerged at the close of...
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Waste Management

Abia tasks Aba residents on environmental hygiene

Abia State Commissioner for Environment, Chief Sam Nwogu, has called on the residents of Aba to practice environmental hygiene to minimise the risk of...
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Waste Management

Reducing methane emissions through waste-to-wealth initiatives

Some 10% of Nigeria’s emissions cuts are expected to come from the reduction of methane in the waste sector. According to its first Nationally Determined...
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Waste Management

We’ll prosecute anyone caught dumping refuse indiscriminately – Oyo

Oyo State Government has said that it will prosecute anyone caught disposing refuse indiscriminately in the state. Commissioner for Environment, Mr Abiodun Oni, stated this...
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