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Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA) has carried out an awareness and sensitisation drive on proper waste management at Ojuwoye Market, Mushin in commemoration of the 2023 World Clean-up Day.
As the Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO) for the food, beverage and tobacco companies in Nigeria saddled with the responsibility of enabling collection and recovery of post-consumer packaging, FBRA engaged in the clean-up, community sensitisation and buyback of recyclables in Mushin, Lagos, Nigeria on September 16, 2023.
The event had about 100 representatives from the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), FBRA member companies and volunteers who cleaned up the market.
Company products were given as incentives to community inhabitants in exchange for recyclables during the event.
Representing LAWMA, Akinbulo Ayobanmi spoke on the commitment of LAWMA to ensure a waste-free Lagos and expressed his delight towards the clean-up, community engagement and awareness organised by FBRA and the impact it would have on the community.
“A total of 82.2kg of PET and 3.2kg of other recyclables were collected via our buy-back scheme and 29 bags of general solid wastes were collected at this event,” he said.
Community members and the traders expressed their gratitude to FBRA for bringing the clean-up exercise to their community as they have never experienced a buy-back initiative before.
The clean-up amplified the importance of clean and sustainable environmental practices through accelerated community engagement and corporate actions to hasten the transition to a plastic-pollution-free society.
Community members were encouraged to continue to emulate the practices of source segregation and proper waste disposal practices demonstrated by FBRA as this will drive the attainment of a clean environment and a waste-free Lagos.
The community was left in high spirits as they spoke about their commitment to practicing proper waste disposal as individuals and as a community through services provided by an indigenous collector.
FBRA was registered in March 2018 as the Industry Coalition for the Food and Beverage Sector, the Packaging Producer Responsibility Organisation to implement the Extended Producer Responsibility in Nigeria.
The alliance has members drawn from responsible and forward-thinking companies which includes Nigerian Bottling Company Plc., Nigerian Breweries Plc., SevenUp Bottling Company Limited, Nestle Nigeria Plc. and Guinness Nigeria Plc., among others.
