LAWMA charges LCDAs on waste sorting

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Managing Director/CEO of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni has urged residents to embrace the system of containerisation and waste sorting from source, to preserve the environment from decadence, as the rains set in. 

Mr. Odunmobi made the call on Thursday during the stakeholders’ meeting which took place at Ayobo Ipaja and Mosan Okunola LCDAs, as part of the ongoing sensitisation campaign across the 57 local governments and ocal council development areas in the state.

The LAWMA helmsman, who was represented by the Director of Finance, LAWMA, Mr. Kunle Adebiyi, stressed the need for every household to have a waste bin to facilitate the sorting of waste from source, adding that, for Lagos to be consistently clean, residents should containerise their waste.

He stated that the Adopt-A-Bin project, was launched to ensure easy access to waste bins by every household in the state, emphasizing that the project had become a veritable tool to tackling indiscriminate dumping of refuse, as well as promoting recycling.

He also encouraged the leadership of the two local council development areas to put in place a system of local waste policing that would discourage those who were in the habit of dumping their waste in drainage channels, adding that residents should patronise only assigned PSP operators.

Appreciating the LAWMA team for the visit, Chairman of Ayobo Ipaja LCDA, Mrs. Bola Shobowale, encouraged everyone present to not only listen attentively to all that were discussed, but to take the message back to their various streets and homes.

She assured the LAWMA team that all necessary steps would be taken to enforce all recommendations and make the necessary changes, aimed at making the environment cleaner and livable.