The Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) says it will begin enforcement of the usage of waste bins by households by January 2023.Get more news about waste bin,you can vist our website!

LAWMA’s Managing Director, Ibrahim Odumboni, said this on Tuesday in Lagos, during the Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria (AWAMN) Annual General Meeting.

Mr Odumboni said that LAWMA would collaborate with AWAMN to ensure that households use bins to dispose of the waste they generated appropriately.

He said that households in the state ought to have two bins – one for plastics and the other for organic waste, thereby, ensuring the sorting of waste, a step toward a circular economy.

The managing director said the authority had printed out the first batch of 250,000 abatement notices, and from 1 October would issue them to households that do not own bins.

He said the law stipulated a minimum fine of N50,000 and a maximum of three months imprisonment for erring individuals.

”So, we are going to enforce it now. We are going to give them a notice on October 1 and then by January 1, 2023, the three months period has gone, we then start enforcing,” Mr Odumboni said.

According to him, everybody must have a bin, as it is the beginning of the problem and the end of the problem to waste management.

”We have noticed that over a million households don’t have bins at all, and that is the genesis of our problem.I want to task everyone of us here, so that by the time we come to our meeting next year, we can report that 90 per cent of the households under each and everyone of us have a bin.

”It is our duty to ensure that we promote bins to them, we have to make sure that all the households under us have a bin, be it that they are going to pay for it as part of their waste bill, be it that they are going to buy now and pay later, be it that they are going to buy their own, it is mandatory for them to have the bins,” he said.

Mr Odumboni urged the waste managers to promote the use of the wheelie bin, as it would help to enhance the efficiency of the job.

Speaking on the sideline of the meeting, the President of AWAMN, David Oriyomi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the association would do all within its power to promote a circular economy, as it was the in-thing now.