AltBank Expands Walk4ZeroPlastic Campaign To Abuja, Kano

The Alternative Bank (AltBank) has taken its run against integrative contamination beyond Lagos, extending the Walk4ZeroPlastic inaugural to Abuja and Kano successful a caller propulsion for corporate enactment against 1 of Nigeria’s fastest-growing municipality challenges.

The Abuja limb of the programme was held implicit the weekend, portion Kano volition travel connected October 4. The run volition big symbolic walks and clean-up activities successful their busiest markets, engaging traders, younker groups, and volunteers successful consciousness campaigns connected sustainable discarded absorption and liable consumption.

Speaking connected the expansion, the enforcement manager (North) astatine AltBank said the workout was designed to amusement that Nigerians tin crook the tide against integrative contamination if they enactment together.

“Plastic contamination is choking our cities, but we tin crook the tide together. Abuja and Kano are acceptable to amusement that corporate enactment tin marque Nigeria’s markets and streets cleaner, safer, and much sustainable. Mohammed said that we are calling each Nigerian, from marketplace traders to authorities agencies, to instrumentality responsibility.”

The inaugural follows the Lagos activation, which drew much than 300 participants, including authorities officials, civilian nine groups, and marketplace leaders, and earned commendation from the Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources.

AltBank said it is rolling retired the Abuja and Kano editions successful collaboration with cardinal partners specified arsenic the Federal Ministry of Environment, Federal Ministry of Youth Development, Abuja Environmental Protection Board, Business Day Foundation, Daar Communication Group, and the Kano State Ministry of Environment. Support is besides being provided by the Kano State Refuse Management and Sanitation Board (REMASAB), Sterling One Foundation, Made by Nigeria (MBN), Kidney Care Hospital, the Sterling Sustainability Working Group, and The Alternative Foodbank.

The slope explained that Walk4ZeroPlastic was not lone a clean-up workout but besides a behavioural alteration run aimed astatine reducing the dense toll of indiscriminate integrative disposal connected nationalist health, livelihoods, and the environment.