The Managing Director/CEO of the Lagos Waste Management
Authority, LAWMA, Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, has challenged innovative engineers in
the state and the country, to design affordable bailing machines for plastic
materials, and to make the recycling business more attractive and less capital
intensive.
He also frowned on the use of brown-coloured pet bottles, for
the packaging of plastic drinks, urging such companies to stick to white
transparent ones.
Odumboni made the observations in his keynote address, at a stakeholders’ consultative forum for plastic recycling value-chain, organised by Giz, a German concern, at the Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja.
He observed that the bailing component of the recycling process,
was a vital one, and locally fabricated machines would go a long way in
simplifying the process since they would come cheaper and more easily
maintained.
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| The Managing Director/CEO. Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni delivers a keynote address on "Synergizing for Maximum Impact", at a sector stakeholders’ consultative forum for plastic recycling value-chain, organized by GIZ, a German concern, at the Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, on Wednesday, 6th April 2022. |
Accordingly to him, “Bailing is an important component of the
plastic recycling process. We need our innovative and enterprising engineers,
to come up with locally designed and manufactured bailing machines, that would
be durable and affordable for our recycling investors. It will be easy to
maintain them. If we have this, the business of plastic recycling will
gradually become less capital intensive and better domesticated. This is my
challenge to our local engineers and I know they can do it.
“Honestly too, I do not understand why some manufacturers use
brown-coloured pet bottles to package drinks for us to consume. Why? You do not
see this in the UK or Dubai for example. What is wrong with using white
transparent pet bottles? Please, such drink producers should take a second
look”, Odumboni insisted.
Speaking further, he disclosed that no less than 500 bags of
fertilizer were daily produced from organic waste at a LAWMA facility in
Odogunyan, a suburb of Lagos, adding that several tonnes of briquette from
sawdust, were also daily produced from another LAWMA facility at Agbowa, also a
suburb of Lagos.
The LAWMA helmsman enjoined the stakeholders, to shun
needless competition and work in synergy and collaboration, to tap the huge
economic opportunity in the business, noting that there were more than enough
floating pet bottles, to go round all investors in the value chain.
Odumboni took a swipe at some NGOs, exploiting the process with their cosmetic engagements, describing them as a burden, with their sharp and ill-intentioned practices, urging them to be truthful, honest, and fair, in their chosen endeavour.
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| Managing Director/CEO LAWMA, Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni (3rd left); Founder Kaltani Recycling, Engr. Obi Charles Nnanna (2nd left); Exec. Secretary Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA), Agharese Lucia (L); CEO Greenhill recycling, Mariam Lawani (m); MD of Giz, Sina Uti Waziri (3rd right); LED & Value Chain Advisor Pro-Poor Growth and Promotion of Employment in Nigeria (SEDIN), Toyin Craig-Adeniran (2nd right); and the facilitator, Modupe Eribake (L), during a sector stakeholders’ consultative forum for plastic recycling value-chain, organized by GIZ, a German concern, at the Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, on Wednesday, 6th April 2022. |
Also speaking, one of the panelists, Mrs. Agharese Onaghise,
executive secretary of Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance, FBRA, noted that
the 22-member group had been self-funding in its various interventions for
plastic recovery, promising that the group would collaborate more, to stabilize
the recycling value-chain, for fair reward to all stakeholders and investors.
The programme was attended by several prominent facilitators
and panelists including, Dr.( Mrs.) Dolapo Fasawe, general manager, Lagos
Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA.
Folashade Kadiri
Director, Public Affairs
LAWMA
6th April 2022
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