The Managing Director of the LAWMA, Mr. Ola Oresanya, has disclosed that the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has begun electricity generation from refuse under its waste to energy programme.
Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria yesterday in Lagos, Oresanya said, “We have waste to energy where we generate electricity from our wastes at one of our markets, Ikosi market. Then we have recycling plants all over that we’ve established.
“Right now, for plastic recycling centres, we have four centres up and running. The tyre shredding plant is also going on to manufacture rubbers from used tyres and apart from that we have several other things that are really going on in that regard.”
Oresanya added that the waste to energy project would be expanded to cover more markets in 2013.
He also highlighted the activities of the authority in the out-going year, saying that the year had been eventful for the authority.
“Our core area or new ground has been in the area of recycling that we are pushing and that has been our core focus for the development of Lagos and I think that is one key area where we’ve been creative.
“We’ve been able to evolve new strategies to make people recycle in Lagos; to change the perception of people and not to see wastes as waste, so that they will see it as resource and that (buying-back), we’ve been able to do through the introduction of recycling banks all over the city. We have the buying-back programme where people bring wastes and we pay them for bringing the wastes.
“That includes assorted materials like pure water sachets. Right now, you bring it we pay N30 per kilogramme – paper, pet (broken) bottles and many other things like that. We have the wastes to food programme where we encourage children to bring recycle materials and we exchange that for food packs during holiday.”
Common sense is indeed not common.
Posted: at 11-12-2012 07:09 AM (12 years ago) | Hero
Hotblades at 11-12-2012 04:31 PM (12 years ago) (m)
Quote from: xband on 11-12-2012 12:29 PM
Ok oh. Person go soon talk say na yoruba state. Make I caught that person first, then he/she go know "what up".
Hope you're aware that Lagos is officially inhabited by Yoruba people in the Yorubaland. Lagos is a yoruba state, has been, still & always will. Infact, I do not understand why it should even be an issue at this point but yes, Lagos is a Yoruba State even though there is NOW a mixed group of people living there. Historically it is a yoruba state and trying to change it because people from other areas have chosen to make it home would not work. Yoruba did not ask anyone to bring capital to Lagos. Lagos is a Yoruba land. all political holders are Yoruba. The land belongs to Yoruba. Just like NY is still an American/English state even though ppl of many other cultures/ethnics live there. The south west belongs to the yorubas. If Nigeria breaks up. Lagos will not be part of bleeping biafra.
Posted: at 11-12-2012 04:31 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie
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