FG Calls For Broader Collaboration Against Plastic Pollution

The national authorities has called for a sustainable concern with the Private assemblage to tackle the rising integrative contamination crossed the country.

The Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, who made the call, praised The Alternative Bank for its continued committedness to tackling integrative contamination successful Nigeria, pursuing the occurrence of the ‘Walk4ZeroPlastic’ inaugural successful Abuja.

The minister, represented by the adjunct manager of the Solid Waste Management Division astatine the Ministry of Environment, Orume Dangiwa Ewa, expressed the Ministry’s beardown enactment for the inaugural and recognised the value of collaboration betwixt the backstage assemblage and authorities successful addressing biology challenges.

In his remarks, Lawal highlighted the urgent request to combat integrative pollution, which remains a important menace to Nigeria’s situation and health. “Nigeria faces a momentous situation of discarded management, generating implicit 32 cardinal tonnes of coagulated discarded annually, with plastics making up much than 15 per cent of this volume.

“This run aligns perfectly with our broader vision: to drastically trim the magnitude of integrative ending up successful our environment, portion astatine the aforesaid clip promoting recycling, assets recovery, liable depletion arsenic good arsenic fostering fiscal inclusion,” helium said.

Lawal continued, “I peculiarly privation to commend The Alternative Bank for its imaginativeness and dedication. By linking biology work with tangible fiscal opportunities done firm societal investment, this inaugural demonstrates that sustainability tin beryllium woven into the precise cloth of our nationalist development, benefiting each assemblage of our economy.”

Forming portion of the bank’s Corporate Social Investment initiatives, the Walk4ZeroPlastic lawsuit included a symbolic walk, a marketplace clean-up, and the donation of discarded bins to Wuse Market to promote amended discarded absorption practices. The inaugural is designed to rise consciousness astir integrative pollution, beforehand recycling, and foster liable consumption. Participants, including marketplace traders, younker volunteers, and firm partners, showed their committedness to the situation and community.

Divisional Head (North) astatine The Alternative Bank, Mohammed Abdul echoed the minister’s sentiments, emphasising the value of corporate action. “We are driving this task due to the fact that we judge that everyone has a relation to play successful creating a cleaner, plastic-free Nigeria. The Walk4ZeroPlastic inaugural is conscionable 1 of galore steps towards gathering an situation that volition beryllium conducive for everyone, including generations yet unborn. Together, we tin physique a aboriginal wherever integrative discarded nary longer threatens our health, our economy, oregon our planet,” helium said.

The Walk4ZeroPlastic programme continues to expand, with the adjacent halt successful Kano connected October 4, 2025, pursuing its palmy activation successful Lagos earlier this year. The inaugural highlights the powerfulness of assemblage engagement successful tackling Nigeria’s discarded challenges, promoting semipermanent behavioral change, and supporting the country’s modulation to a circular economy.