The Lagos State Waste Management Authority has said it will consolidate on the achievements it recorded in 2013 this year by ensuring that the state is rid of garbage and providing opportunities for the government and the citizens to earn money from wastes.
The agency stated this in a document made available to our correspondent on Sunday in which it also highlighted its achievements for the out gone year.
LAWMA said it seized 7,845 carts in the course of the past year so as to ensure that only registered private sector participants handled waste evacuation and to prevent household wastes from finding their way into drainage channels and other unauthorised dumpsites.
The agency also said it evacuated 64 abandoned vehicles and carried out 257 commercial and domestic enforcements, all aimed at ridding the state of dirt.
According to the statement, LAWMA also succeeded in capping the Olusosun landfill site to reduce the moisture content of the waste and the pungent smell from the site, adding that a bailing machine for packing materials was also installed at the site last year.
The statement read in part, “A policy framework for the establishment of construction and demolition of a waste management system in Lagos State put together by LAWMA in partnership with GEMS, a United Kingdom-based agency championing the economic empowerment of women and the poor within the construction supply chain also took place.
“There was also the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between LAWMA and Alkem Nigeria Limited for the establishment, operation and maintenance of a PET bottle collection and baling centre at the Olusosun Recycling Village.”
The statement added that the agency also purchased mini trucks to service the inner streets and areas with infrastructural challenges in the state.
LAWMA also commenced tyre shredding/recycling at the Marini plant in Oshodi, in conjunction with a private investor.
In the course of the past year, the organisation said Lagos was nominated among four other cities of the world to represent Africa at the Global City Climate Leadership Awards, while bout 4,500 pupils visited the recycling plant at Olusosun for various educational programmes.
According to the statement, during the year, about 40 junior and senior secondary schools were inaugurated into the LAWMA Recycling Club.
The agency said it also successfully hosted the first World Environment Day celebration at its headquarters in which pupils participated with facilitators from tertiary institutions.
As part of its personnel development programme, LAWMA said it organised workshops for street sweepers and hosted the annual health and safety programme with over 20,000 personnel engaged both in the formal and informal sectors in attendance.
The second National Healthcare Waste management Summit was also organised by the agency in collaboration with HEFAMAA/AGPPMA, while the 2013 tree planting exercise took place at the Oba Ogunji, Agege Transfer Loading Station,.
To round off the year, LAWMA said it handled the sanitisation of the Eko Atlantic City/Bar Beach in preparation for the Lagos Cross-over Festival on December 31.
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