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 commercial entities.
The Adopt-A-Bin Programme is said to be designed to promote effective waste management in the state, with emphasis on waste sorting right at the point of generation.
Speaking at the launch of the Adopt-a-Bin programme at Simpson Transfer Loading Station on Lagos Island, Sanwo-Olu said the gospel of waste sorting at source is now gaining ground as individual pickers of recyclable items were increasing by the day and recycling firms springing up.
According to the governor, who was represented by the Commissioner of the Environment and Water Resources, Tunji Bello, “Today, we are at the threshold of another phase, in our Lagos Recycle Initiative, as we launch standard waste bins, for the ‘Adopt -a- Bin’ project, which is LAWMA’s latest baby.
The bins which come in two colours; the green for general waste and the blue for recyclable items, are for containerising waste.
