NESTLE PARTNERS LAGOS BUSINESS SCHOOL, WECYCLERS, STAFF,PROFER SOLUTIONS TO WASTE POLUTION IN NIGERIA

Bailed Plastic Wastes At Wecyclers Facility

When looking for any organisation with forward-thinking management to profer solutions to many societal undones,ranging from Agricultural improvement, Educational supports, Environmental awareness including journalism-friendly management please wander no more but pick Nestlé Nigeria Limited.

Nestlé an ingenious food and  beverage manufactures of both baby and adult nutritious products,  which goes beyond the expected in catering for many sectors in the country.

 

In a bid to effectively make impact in solving waste polutions which has before now poses a colossus challenge to healthy and sustainable living to communities,inhabitants, Environmental polutions as a resultant menace,battling our nation is traceable to issues of plastic pollution we have around the communities due to careless handling of all manners of waste disposal.

Nestlé Nigeria in collaboration with LBS, Wecyclers waste processing company,an organisation with franchises in collections,processing and bail-packaging and forward process wastes ranges from cartons,nylons, Cardboards,Plastic waste of different colours has dealt a big blow to deluge of polutions we have in our society.

Many of these plastics usually find their ways to gutters thereby blocking easy flows of gutters,canals which result in flooding in Lagos and other states in Nigeria.

 

 

 

 Waste plastics at Wecyclers facility

 

 

 Mrs Esther Fagbo Chibuenyi,the Business development manager at Wecyclers disclosed Lagos centre alone collected over 80 tons of recyclable waste in May 2022,

'With franchises  and partnership with Nestlé Nigeria Ltd all over the nation,we can be rest assured we contribute our quotas in moping out wastes and further management of same for benefits and job provisions to many unemployed citizens in our communities' as of now we have many people in our franchises that solely relied on incomes from rewards we paid to them.She said.

 

According to her, “We currently have 13 collection kiosks in different locations and Lagos in partnership with Nestle.

To advance technology “We also have digital Apps to facilitate online transaction in waste carton, plastics, paper and cardbord with different payment categories”, to our collectors.

Waste Mobile trucks 

 

 Chibuenyi added that the company also have mobile trucks to collect material from communities. Collectionis the major problem in the recycling value chain in Nigeria. We are not collecting enough. We are still looking for more partners.

“I magine a gutter being filled up with plastics. When there is a proper collection process, those plastics should be in recycling factory.”

“We have two franshises with Nestle. The franchises are helping us to collect a lot of plastics from the environment. Last month, we collected about 80 tons of recyclables and we are hoping to do more in subsequent months,” she said

Esther Fagbo  Chibueyi production manager

Journalist Training Partnership 

Recently, Nestlé Nigeria,in collaboration with Lagos Business School further shows earnest concerns in training journalists across the nation,an effort  though rare,embarked upon to improve, sharpen pen-pushers skills and modern approach to reportage in the 21st century.  To conclude the training with "themed: “Advancing Nutrition, Health and Environmental Awareness in Media”. A media tour was scheduled to Wecyclers facility in Lagos to  abreast the fourth realms of the nation about their societal contributions without much trumpets of attention.

At  Wecyclers facility in Lagos, journalists participants witnesses how wastes of diverse kinds were collected and packaged for recycling proccesses.

Bailing Machine

The media tour was part of the concluding session of the Nestle training for journalists at Lagos Business School (LBS), 

Bailing Machine operators on duty

Nestlé Partnership With Staff in Waste Management

Staff and workforce at Nestlé Nigeria are engrossed with vision of saving the community by adopting a scheme of waste management,the scheme states: 'bring up your plastic wastes generated domestically to the office and you get rewarded'.an act which would have positively infected the communities staffs and workforce resides especially when rewards is attached.With Such scheme more trumpets are blown for waste recovery awareness in our nation.

Mrs Edidiong Peters, Public Affairs Specialist, Nestlé Nigeria Ltd, while addressing journalists said the partnership was strategic to address plastic pollution in the country. “As a company, we recently launched 'The Employees Plastics Collection Scheme’.

We want our staff to bring the plastics and recyclables to the office.“And in collaboration with Wecyclers, we ensure that the plastics are received,properly recycled and the staff rewarded monetarily for their contributions.

Mrs Peters said it was part of Nestlé’s contribution to promote environmental sustainability among Nigerians.

“We are really delighted to have the media with us as we talk about collaboration with the Lagos Business School (LBS) Sustainability Center, in tackling plastic pollution.

“This is Nestle's contribution in addressing plastic pollution in Nigeria and protecting the environment as a company.

“At Nestlé, we are committed to protecting the environment for future generations and more of our actions in sustainability efforts will come up from time to time,” Peters said

Workers working on the plastic bottles 

 

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Ms Theresa Akpoveso,LBS

 

On her part, Ms Theresa Akpoveso, Senior Associate, Sustainability Center LBS, disclosed partnership with Nestlé would create more awareness on plastic pollution and prevention for Nigerians.

According to her, the LBS Sustainability Center in partnership with Nestlé is set out to raise awareness of environmental issues and nutrition.She concluded.