By Hauwa Ali
The Young Advocates for Sustainable and Inclusive Future (YASIF) haslaunched an incentive-based community recycling programme aimed at guiding participants onmolding positive behavioral changes and help them to contribute to the solution of poor plastic waste management in the country.
The event,took place in KaronMajiji village in Abuja, recently
As part of its plan to enhance the public knowledge on effective plastic waste management in Nigeria, the group trained 50 women and young people on proper plastic waste practices.
The founder of YASIF, Blessing Ewa, enjoined community members to practice good plastic waste management to help preserve the environment.
“Going forward, YASIF and her partners intend to reach out to many other grassroots communities within and outside the federal capital territory (FCT) to create more impact and help to combat plastic pollution in Nigeria,” Ewa said.
The founder of Ecocykle Limited,AliyuSadiq while presenting a paper on plastic pollution and its impacts on human and environmental health, highlighted some key strategies on how members of local communities can help reduce the problems bedeviling plastic waste to accelerate the attainment of a more sustainable environment.
Also present at the program was AdesuwaObasuyi, the Climate Change Policy Manager with the British High Commission in Nigeria, who encouraged the participants to become part of the solution by tackling the challenges of indiscriminate plastic waste disposal and management across the country.
In expressing appreciation for the program, theKaronMajiji village,praised the organisers for finding his community worthy of implementing this noble and enlightening scheme.
He charged the beneficiaries to put the newly acquired knowledge they have obtained into good use, while assuring that the community will adopt a positive approach to managing plastic waste and pollution.
“The community will leverage the newly acquired knowledge to ensure that indiscriminate plastic waste and pollution is a thing of the past,” he assured.