The Chairman of the Nigeria Environmental Society, Abeokuta chapter, Alhaji Badmus Jamiu, has appealed to residents of the state to put an end to plastic pollution and its menace on the environment for a cleaner, healthier and safer society.
Jamiu made the call in a statement issued on Thursday to mark 2025 World Environment Day with the theme “Putting An End to Plastic Pollution”.
He said that although plastic is useful to human existence and serves as source of livelihood to millions, its menace when it gets into the environment is hazardous as it stays longer and fail to degrade thereby causing untold environmental menace.
Jamiu explained that “Plastic pollution also constitute health risk particularly to aquatic life which will invariably come back to the society”
He commended the Ogun State Government’s Blue Box Programme, describing it as a practical initiative that residents should key into.
“So there is the need for residents of the state to put an end to plastic pollution by properly managing their plastic waste and embrace different government initiative such as the Blue Box Programme championed by the Ogun State government.
“Our people should also try as much as possible to separate plastics from their waste for onward sale to recyclers near them instead of mingling them with the normal waste thereby saving the environment of their hazards.”