The Environmental Services Association says the National Infrastructure Assessment is good but misses an opportunity to ‘move away from blunt municipal recycling targets.
Source: www.rebnews.com
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Ibrahim Odumboni, has urged engineers to design bailing machines for plastic materials to make recycling more attractive and less capital intensive. He flayed the use of brown pet bottles for packaging of plastic drinks, urging firms doing so to stick to white ones. Odumboni stated these at a stakeholders’ consultative forum for plastic recycling, organised by Giz, a German firm, at the Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos.
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