FABE Donates 100 Recycling Bins to Schools

The Foundation for a Better Environment (FABE) says it has donated 100 giant recycling bins to schools in Ogun and Lagos states, southwest Nigeria.

Development Diaries reports that the donation, according to the foundation, was to promote environmental sustainability and commemorate 2023 World Environment Day (WED).

WED, which is observed annually on 05 June, encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment.

Nigeria faces a wide array of environmental problems, including deforestation, desertification, wind erosion, flooding, and climate change.

In a 2017 report, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) noted that an estimated 60,000 people were affected between 2007 and 2017 in Nigeria due to environmental-related diseases.

‘With funding from the Coca-Cola Foundation and with our determination to ensure that Nigerians become environmentally responsible, we have donated 100 giant recycling bins to different schools in Ogun and Lagos states’, NAN quoted the founder of FABE, Temitope Okunnu, as saying.

‘This is in line with our goal to promote the importance of environmental education in schools.

‘We are doing this because we understand the role that environmental education plays in shaping the future of our next generation’.

Okunnu said that the bins were donated to Akande Dahunsi Senior Secondary School, Ikoyi; and Olomu Junior Secondary School, Ajah, among others in Lagos State.

‘In Ogun State, the foundation donated some of the bins to Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta; Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), where it is also going to set up a recycling hub’, she added.

Okunnu stressed that recycling was one of the solutions to beat plastic pollution in the country, adding that the Foundation wanted the next generation to have a responsibility to the environment.

‘We are also targeting the higher institutions this time and not only the secondary and primary schools’, she said.

‘We also want to encourage both the students and teachers to adopt sustainable practices by planning and sorting their waste, recycling and to reduce the amount of waste in our dumpsites’.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has called on governments in Africa and other parts of the world to deliver a strong and ambitious deal to end plastic pollution.

The UN agency also called on industry and the private sector to get creative and redesign products and packaging to eliminate or use less plastic; to be more easily reusable, to be more easily recyclable and repairable.

Photo source: NAN

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