Be proactive in waste management, don urges Kwara Govt.
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Waste
By Bushrah Yusuf-Badmus
Ilorin, Oct. 27, 2016 (NAN ) Dr Henry Sawyer, Dean of School of Allied Health and Environmental Sciences, Kwara State University, has called on the state government to be proactive in waste management.
Sawyer told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Ilorin, that the state government should revive abandoned waste management industries.
”I recall that during the time of former Minister for Environment Halimah Alao, who is from Kwara, we had what was supposed to be an integrated waste management facility at Amoyo.
”And at the same time, around Oko Olowo area, there was a well established plastic recycling facility there.
“The question is, if you don’t put these things to use, you also cannot begin to have positive results,” he said.
Sawyer said that the government should take cognisance of the kind of waste generated to know what could be derived from them.
“We are largely a state that is not heavily industrial, but mostly agrarian.
“If we look at what we generate in terms of our waste in markets and other places, our waste stream is largely about 55 per cent potential organic manure waste.
”We can now look at how we can tap into that organic manure and see whether we need to fortify them and be able to have them as agricultural products support.
“ That can give us the potential of being a state that produce organic based agro produce.
”That does not exclude our recycling plastic and metals,’’ the don stressed.(NAN)
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Edited by Razak Owolabi
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