Tag:plastic pollution

Pollution

World Environment Day: EDEN wants producers held accountable, Chevron lists commitment to environmental protection

As the world celebrates the 2025 World Environment Day with this year’s theme, “Putting an End to Plastic Pollution”, Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN) is...

Michael Simire - June 5, 2025

Pollution

World Environment Day: NEST seeks end to plastic pollution, UNICEF inaugurates Sokoto tree plantation

As the world celebrates the World Environment Day (WED) on Thursday, June 5, 2025, with the theme “Ending Plastic Pollution”, the Nigerian Environmental Study...

Michael Simire - June 5, 2025

Pollution

On World Environment Day, you can help to end plastic pollution

When you woke up this morning, you did not breakfast on a plate of plastics, and rightly so. Your body likely has plastic in...

Michael Simire - June 4, 2025

Waste Management

Ekiti to ban single-use plastics

The Speaker of Ekiti House of Assembly, Mr. Adeoye Aribasoye, says the Assembly will soon pass a bill banning single-use plastic to address environmental...

Michael Simire - May 30, 2025

Pollution

How data is helping cities counter plastic pollution

Officials in Lagos, Nigeria, were facing a dilemma. It was the early 2020s, and the city of 22 million was being overwhelmed by plastic pollution....

Michael Simire - May 24, 2025

Cover

Answering 10 pressing questions about plastic pollution

The world generated an estimated 400 million tonnes of plastic waste in 2024. This torrent of water and shampoo bottles, dispensing containers, polyester shirts, PVC piping...

Michael Simire - May 2, 2025

Waste Management

French Embassy project: Ekwueme varsity takes delivery of 130 waste bins to combat plastic pollution

In a bid to promote environmental sustainability and responsible plastic waste management on campus, the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike (AE-FUNAI), Ebonyi State, has...

Michael Simire - March 23, 2025

Pollution