Fashion waste: Lagos charges textile industries on circular practices

By Olasunkanmi Akoni

THE Lagos State Government, yesterday, charged players successful the textile manufacture to collaborate with the authorities to tackle textile and manner discarded and follow circular manner practices crossed the metropolis.

Special Adviser to the Governor connected Environment, Engr. Olakunle Rotimi- Akodu, made the telephone during the twelvemonth 2025 World Clean Up Day celebrations held astatine the NECA House, Alausa, Ikeja, saying “It is indispensable to rise consciousness to amended consumers, designers, and policymakers astir the value of circular manner practices.”

Rotimi- Akodu, added that circular manner practices offers a promising solution by reducing waste, promoting sustainability, and encouraging eco-friendly manner products.

He said the 2025 World Clean-up Day was being celebrated crossed 180 countries with the theme; “Tackling textile and manner discarded done circular fashion,” saying the taxable is apt due to the fact that the manner manufacture has been said to beryllium 1 of the largest polluters globally, contributing importantly to biology degradation.

According to him, “In Nigeria, textile and manner discarded is gradually becoming a important biology concern, driven by the accelerated maturation of the manner assemblage and a “take, make, dispose” approach.”

Akodu stressed that the results successful monolithic magnitude of waste, with the manner manufacture generating 92 cardinal tonnes of discarded annually.

He said the main challenges of this peculiar assemblage includes; constricted nationalist consciousness astir textile recycling and its benefits; inadequate recycling facilities and postulation points; sorting complexity; constricted entree to recycling technologies and constricted marketplace request for recycled textile products.

He said everyone indispensable articulation the quest for a cleaner situation and each indispensable beryllium reminded that clean-ups unsocial would not lick the discarded crisis.

“Everyone request to spark alteration successful the nine by promoting idiosyncratic behaviour change, raising consciousness astir businesslike discarded absorption and diverting attraction to captious contented of textile and manner discarded management.”

Akodu said the lawsuit has fixed accidental to sermon and bring up immoderate imaginable solutions ranging from effectual recycling programs to cod and process textile waste.

Others include: Upcycling by transforming discarded textiles into new, invaluable products arsenic good arsenic loop textile accumulation and recycling ways of adopting a circular system exemplary that promotes closed loop textile accumulation and recycling.”

Earlier, the Permanent Secretary, Office of Environmental Services, Dr. Tajudeen Gaji, said the lawsuit is observed annually to item the value of sustainable discarded absorption and animate corporate enactment to make a cleaner, healthier satellite done consciousness astir reducing discarded pollution.

The Guest Speaker, Mrs. Sidiqat Folami who spoke connected the theme, noted that immoderate of the problems encountered successful the manufacture see dense c dioxide (CO‚ ) emissions, on with different greenhouse gases specified arsenic methane (CH„ ), are released crossed the full textile worth concatenation — from pre-production and production, to in-use and post-use stages

According to her, to boost textile wastes absorption and Circular Fashion successful Nigeria, “there is the request for the advocacy and sensitization, ;ead campaigns with practitioners to amended the public, beforehand circular manner adoption done consciousness and

empower communities with behavioral alteration initiatives.”

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