Lagos Waste Management Agency To Use Recycling To Reduce Environmental Impact Caused By Plastic Waste

The Lagos State Waste Management Authority LAWMA says it is LAWMA is engaging recycling as a veritable tool to tackle the challenge of plastic pollution.

This comes as the state generates about 13,000 metric tonnes of waste daily, with plastic materials constituting 17%.

The Managing Director/CEO of LAWMA, Ibrahim Odumboni, stated that recycling initiative for waste management had gained traction, since the inception of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration, with the number of recycling companies operating in the state growing from only three to 78.

He said that since the launch of the recycling initiative by the Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the agency has grown from three recycling companies to 78 recycling companies and still counting.

“We currently have more than 600 aggregators, and over 6,000 jobs created in the sector so far. So you can see that we’ve started a movement and a growth. It’s over two years now and the progress that is being made is enormous,” Odumboni said.