… Commemorates World Environment Day 2025
The
Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has urged residents to embrace
proper waste management, to ensure a clean and healthy environment
during and after this year’s Id-el-Kabir celebration.
In
a statement released on Wednesday, the Managing Director/CEO Dr. Muyiwa
Gbadegesin, assured residents that extensive provisions have been made
to handle the anticipated increase in waste generation throughout the
Sallah period, noting that waste management services would be provided
across all designated routes, ensuring seamless evacuation of refuse in
every part of the city.
He said, “Eid-el-Kabir
is a season of joy, gratitude, and communal harmony. While residents
celebrate with their families and loved ones, we must all remain mindful
of our civic duties, especially in relation to the environment. Proper
handling and disposal of animal waste, food remnants, and packaging
materials are non-negotiable if we are to maintain the standards of
hygiene we all desire.”
He said that LAWMA
officials and enforcement teams, would be monitoring field operations
and waste disposal activities around the metropolis, to ensure
compliance with best practices, during and after the festivities.
Gbadegesin
appealed to residents to avoid indiscriminate dumping of refuse on road
medians, drainage channels, and open spaces, stressing that such
actions compromised public health and would attract penalties, urging
butchers and livestock dealers to make use of approved slaughter
facilities across the state, to minimise contamination and maintain
sanitary standards in line with public health regulations.
While
wishing the Muslim faithful a peaceful and joyful celebration,
Gbadegesin reaffirmed the agency’s commitment to maintaining
environmental cleanliness, not just during festive periods but
throughout the year, appealing to Lagosians to support the Authority’s
efforts by bagging their waste properly, containerising and ensuring
timely evacuation through assigned PSP operators.
In
a related development, LAWMA has joined its counterparts across the
globe to commemorate 2025 World Environment Day, marked every 5th June.
This year’s theme, “Putting an End to Plastic Pollution”, places
emphasis on the urgent need to save the environment from the dangers of
plastic pollution.
The LAWMA boss noted that
the theme resonated deeply with the agency’s ongoing mission to
transform Lagos into a cleaner and healthier city, by tackling the
menace of plastic pollution, adding that environmental restoration was
not a one-time event but a sustained process that began with individual
choices and community-based action.
He stated
further that LAWMA had commenced a series of advocacy and clean-up
initiatives in collaboration with environment stakeholders, schools, and
community-based organisations, aimed at encouraging environmental
ownership at the grassroots level, calling on market associations,
religious leaders, and neighborhood groups, to help educate their
members on how small daily actions, such as clearing gutters, separating
recyclables, or discouraging street dumping, could lead to meaningful
and positive long-term ecological impact.
He
concluded by stressing that World Environment Day 2025 offered an
opportunity for every Lagos resident to recommit to building a healthier
and more sustainable future, urging all stakeholders to reflect on the
consequences of environmental neglect and join hands with government
agencies to restore and protect the ecosystem that sustains lives and
livelihoods in the state.
For further
information or to report any waste management issues, residents are
advised to contact LAWMA through its official lines: 080000LAWMA
(08000052962), 07080601020 or 617 or send an email to [email protected].
Kadiri, Folashade (Mrs.)
Director, Public Affairs
04/06/2025
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