Group Set to Boost  Waste Collection  Initiative

By Ugo Aliogo, Afolabi Lawal, and Mary Efuwape

Visionscape Group is set to distribute one million bags for waste collection to every household in Lagos State under the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) as part of measures to address indiscriminate dumping of waste.

Speaking at a meeting in Lagos with Visionscape Area Operations Managers of Local Government Areas and Community Development Associations (CDAs), the Operations Director Visionscape, Tarak Sahay, said through the initiative they are creating awareness on properly waste management and the need for segregation of the waste before disposal.

He expressed confidence that the initiative would impact positively waste disposal culture in the state, adding that they are making frantic efforts through their operation managers in the CDAs to make the bags available to every household to avoid littering.

The Visionscape chief  called on the operations managers to use the networks they have created to distribute these bags to households in the CDAs and LGAs, adding that if this feat is achieved, it would be a significant milestone for the initiative.

Sahay said: “Residents should dispose the waste at nearby bins so that our collection vehicles collect them there. We are hopeful that this initiative is going to bring in paradigm shift in people’s mindset regarding waste.

“This is what is expected, judging from the experiences we have had in developed countries. Community involvement is key for us because it helps people to understand their roles and responsibility.

“In the last seven months, we have served CDAs in the state. Through this, therefore we have collected data on the density of population, the number of household, and streets data. This allows us to know the amount of waste that will be generated in a particular area.

“We are going to do that weekly in our collection plan and one ton is the generation quantity of a particular bag. So after six days of generating the waste from the community, we will collect from them. This is how we have done all the necessary assessments needed for the exercise.”