… Commemorates World Surroundings Day 2025
The Lagos Waste Administration Authority (LAWMA) has urged residents to embrace correct waste administration, to make sure a clear and wholesome setting throughout and after this 12 months’s Id-el-Kabir celebration.
In a press release launched on Wednesday, the Managing Director/CEO Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin, assured residents that in depth provisions have been made to deal with the anticipated enhance in waste technology all through the Sallah interval, noting that waste administration companies could be supplied throughout all designated routes, making certain seamless evacuation of refuse in each a part of the town.
He mentioned, “Eid-el-Kabir is a season of pleasure, gratitude, and communal concord. Whereas residents have fun with their households and family members, we should all stay conscious of our civic duties, particularly in relation to the setting. Correct dealing with and disposal of animal waste, meals remnants, and packaging supplies are non-negotiable if we’re to keep up the requirements of hygiene all of us need.”
He mentioned that LAWMA officers and enforcement groups, could be monitoring area operations and waste disposal actions across the metropolis, to make sure compliance with greatest practices, throughout and after the festivities.
Gbadegesin appealed to residents to keep away from indiscriminate dumping of refuse on highway medians, drainage channels, and open areas, stressing that such actions compromised public well being and would entice penalties, urging butchers and livestock sellers to utilize accepted slaughter services throughout the state, to minimise contamination and keep sanitary requirements in keeping with public well being rules.
Whereas wishing the Muslim trustworthy a peaceable and festivity, Gbadegesin reaffirmed the company’s dedication to sustaining environmental cleanliness, not simply throughout festive intervals however all year long, interesting to Lagosians to help the Authority’s efforts by bagging their waste correctly, containerising and making certain well timed evacuation by assigned PSP operators.
In a associated improvement, LAWMA has joined its counterparts throughout the globe to commemorate 2025 World Surroundings Day, marked each fifth June. This 12 months’s theme, “Placing an Finish to Plastic Air pollution”, locations emphasis on the pressing want to avoid wasting the setting from the risks of plastic air pollution.
The LAWMA boss famous that the theme resonated deeply with the company’s ongoing mission to remodel Lagos right into a cleaner and more healthy metropolis, by tackling the menace of plastic air pollution, including that environmental restoration was not a one-time occasion however a sustained course of that started with particular person selections and community-based motion.
He acknowledged additional that LAWMA had commenced a sequence of advocacy and clean-up initiatives in collaboration with setting stakeholders, faculties, and community-based organisations, aimed toward encouraging environmental possession on the grassroots stage, calling on market associations, non secular leaders, and neighborhood {groups}, to assist educate their members on how small day by day actions, similar to clearing gutters, separating recyclables, or discouraging road dumping, might result in significant and constructive long-term ecological affect.
He concluded by stressing that World Surroundings Day 2025 supplied a chance for each Lagos resident to recommit to constructing a more healthy and extra sustainable future, urging all stakeholders to replicate on the results of environmental neglect and be part of palms with authorities companies to revive and defend the ecosystem that sustains lives and livelihoods within the state.
For additional info or to report any waste administration points, residents are suggested to contact LAWMA by its official strains: 080000LAWMA (08000052962), 07080601020 or 617 or ship an electronic mail to [email protected].
Kadiri, Folashade (Mrs.)
Director, Public Affairs
