The Lagos State Government said the enforcement of the ban on Single-Use Plastics (SUPs) will commence “very soon”.
This is according to the Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources Tokunbo Wahab who spoke when he hosted members of the Food and Beverages Recyclers Alliance (FBRA) on a courtesy call in his office on Thursday.
Wahab said Lagos State is very strategic and intentional about the Single-Use Plastics (SUP) ban.
“I want to make a plea with Lagosians, let us continue to support the government concerning the ban of styrofoam as we move to the next phase which is the ban on the usage of single-use plastics. Lagosians should see it in the context of an issue we are trying to address and they should support the government concerning it,” the commissioner said in a statement issued on Friday afternoon by the Lagos State Government.
“We are also going to be considerate with how we will implement it so that we can clean the system of this waste and move towards the reusing and recycling of the product and save our land fields from things that do not have to go there”.
According to him, unlike styrofoam, SUP is more complicated. He said the government wants to do what is right for a sustainable environment.
There have been speculations that the Lagos State Government plans to ban sachet water commonly known as “pure water”.
However, the commissioner said the government is not looking in that direction.
“The government is not banning pure water. We shall buy the sachets back and we are working round the buyback,” he said. “I’m also glad that lots of interventions for recycling and reusing the products (Pure Water Sachets) are in the works”.
