In Nigeria looking for unusual ways of dealing with waste Bashny.Net

The largest city in Nigeria Lagos – regularly took first place in the list of the most downloaded garbage cities in the world. 20 million people who inhabit it, each day produce more than 10 thousand tons of waste, most of which are not something that is not recycled, but simply remained on the streets. Is this a critical situation with a number of highlights: in Lagos rather unusual buildings, and narrow streets, coupled with traffic jams do not allow garbage trucks to drive everywhere; and the local population, most of them living on the brink of poverty, occupied by constant search for means of living, and about the environment there are few who thinks.





The city authorities have for many years tried in vain to solve the garbage problem, but so far none of their initiatives has not produced results. On the eve of the city's Department of waste management launched another project called Wecyclers, which, in the opinion of the officials, able to think a little to fix the situation. The Lagos began to run the bikes, equipped for the carriage of huge packages for separate waste collection. Behind the wheel of these mobile trucks sit those who need temporary work and part time job. Household using their services, as a reward for separate waste collection can earn points that can later either to cash or to spend in local shopping malls.

The idea of this project belongs to Bilkiss, Adebi, which has in its record a prestigious diploma from MIT Sloan, as well as experience in IBM. Receiving education in the United States, and comparing the situation with waste in this country and in his native Lagos, she came up with the idea for this unusual project. As a girl, the last few years the situation of waste in the city has crossed the critical line, and without effective solutions, the city and its people will come to his death. Already, most of the soils are poisoned with harmful chemical compounds, and the drainage system clogged with debris, unable to cope with the floods. The initiators of the project Wecyclers realize that he is unlikely to allow such a huge metropolis the problem of waste. But at the same time they hope that the part of the citizens will change the mentality, and they will be more responsible approach to the handling of waste.

 

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Source: zeleneet.com