By Hauwa Ali
The Association of Certified and Chartered Accountants (ACCA), are set to launch the “Recycling for Education Campaign”, a three-month initiative which will provide schooling for vulnerable children through the financing of waste recycling in the country.
This was contained in group’s 2022 report entitled “Accounting for a Better World”, where the Association highlights education as one of the seven priorities for accelerating sustainable development in Africa.
The initiative, which will run from July to September 2022 in all Nigerian states, will be implemented with partners such as the FlexiSAF Foundation, which specialises in education, and Waste Africa, an organisation specialising in waste management in Africa.
The FlexiSAF Foundation led by Amina Abubakar is providing the platform for the implementation of this project through its Bottle4Books initiative which combines education and sanitation.
“The collaboration will raise awareness of recycling and its positive impact on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria,” says Tom Isibor, ACCA’s Country Manager in Nigeria.
These include SDGs 4 and 12, which call for quality education and sustainable production and consumption, respectively.
Nigeria produces 200,000 tonnes of plastic waste per year, two-thirds of which ends up in landfills, according to the Global Partnership for Action on Plastics (GPAP).
Many economic actors are multiplying initiatives aimed at improving waste management including Coca-Cola and the Nigeria Climate Innovation Centre (NCIC) who have joined forces to recycle about 9,000 tonnes of plastic waste each year in six states: Kano, Adamawa, Abia, Kwara, Edo, as well as the Federal Capital Territory.
Kaltani, a plastic recycling company in Lagos, also plan to install 20 plastic waste collection units in 10 states to expand recycling at its main plant in Lagos. The company plans to recycle up to 15,000 tonnes of plastic waste each year.