A Non governmental organisation, Global Alliance For Incinerator Alliance (GAIA) Nigeria branch in conjunction with Civil Society Organisations has advised Lagos State government against her plan to use incinerator to generate power in the state.
Speaking in Lagos against the danger of incinerator, spokesperson for GAIA in Nigeria Weyinmi Okotie said the state government ought to have sort the view of those vast in the usage of Incinerator and the implication of using it.
Okotie who briefed newsmen along with experts on environmental pollution,Dr. Leslie Adogame of Spader Nigeria,Benson Fasanya of Ofen, and Anthony Akpan of Pave, noted that they decided to brief the public of the environmental hazard incinerator posed to the public and ineffectiveness of it in supplying electricity.
Okotie explained that because of the danger incinerator posed to the masses that is why they advocate a shift from it to zero management of waste.
He maintained that most developed countries are done away with incinerator and it is a facility phased out that is being sold to Nigeria,more so that, the move negates the climate change move that Lagos State is championing.
Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in May formalised a partnership with a Dutch firm, Harvest Waste Consortium, for the construction of a high efficiency Waste-to-Energy plant on Epe landfill, which will utilise advanced technology to generate clean energy from municipal solid waste, commercial and industrial waste.
“We are not sounding antagonistic,but we want things done properly.There is the need for a rallying point.The stakeholders in Epe where the incinerator will be cited should have been consulted.” He said.
He explained that apart from the danger the incinerator posed to human lives,it can’t convert organic waste and 50 percent of waste generated in Lagos are organic,more so, cost of maintaining an incinerator is expensive, and that was the reason most countries do away with it.”It has been phased out in Europe and USA because it is difficult to manage and it is inefficient.
The groups appealed to Lagos State government to look for other alternatives to generate energy for the state.