LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT REFUNDS 145 FORMER SUBSCRIBERS OF EGAN HOUSING ESTATE
admin By Oyebola Owolabi
The process of shutting down Olusosun and Solous dumpsites will start in December, Managing Director of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Muyiwa Gbadegesin, has said.
The dumpsites will give way to renewable energy stations, and the project will last 18 months.
Gbadegesin stated this at a one-day stakeholders’ forum on Sustainable Waste Management in Lagos State, held at the Civic Centre in Victoria Island.
Gbadegesin restated LAWMA’s commitment to creating a cleaner Lagos through collaboration with stakeholders for a sustainable environment.
He said: “We recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)with ZoomLion, a Ghanaian company, to establish material recovery facilities. Even before that, they are going to cover the Olusosun and Solous landfills within the next 18 months. It will be covered with Geotextiles, after which solar panels will be placed on it, and then transfer loading stations will be built on it – one at Solous and another at Olusosun, so that we can take the waste in trailers to material recovery facilities that will be constructed in Ikorodu and Badagry.
“The recovery facilities look like factories, you won’t see the waste but the bulk waste can then be converted into various other things such as metals and plastics.
“That is the plan, we do not want waste on the streets of Lagos, and we no longer want dumpsites, we want material recovery facilities.”
The LAWMA boss also said the stakeholders’ forum is to incorporate the stakeholders to embrace the government’s ‘adopt-a-bin’ initiative, and to support its environmental revolution strides towards creating wealth and ensuring a cleaner environment.
He added that the state, at the moment, only recycles eight per cent of the recyclable materials, while hoping to increase the efforts to over 20 per cent in the next three years.
“We have introduced a two-bin programme which means that every household and business should have a minimum of two bins, one for organic/general waste, and another for dry recyclables like plastics, paper and metals,” he added.
Executive Director of LAWMA Kunle Adebiyi said solid waste management has been a pressing issue in the modern world driven by rapid urbanisation, industrialisation and population growth.
