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Following the menace which single-use plastics especially non-biodegradable Styrofoam are causing on the environment, the Lagos State government (@followlasg ) through the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (@LasgMOE ) is hereby announcing a ban on the usage and distribution of Styrofoam and other single-use plastics in the State with immediate effect.

#CleanerLagos
#AGreaterLagosRising

Tokunbo Wahab
Commissioner for Environment & Water Affairs, Lagos State

The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment & Water Affairs should calm down and take things easy. This is peoples solely source of income and I believe there should be time frame to this.

fergie001:
Tokunbo Wahab
Lagos Commissioner for Environment & Water Affairs

Following the post COP28 footsteps of the UAE.

UAE is passing the use out gradually and not abruptly the way uncle Sanwo wanna do his.

My 2024 business ooo

wahala, many thing just come conveniently to destroy the eco system..see this pack and bottle water plastic eeehn!

Choi no be small. Nylon will take over take away packs

Nigeria

So what should be used in their place?

People don suffer for this shit hole country. Everytime the yeye leaders we have will clamping down on it citizens for one reason or the other. Let the poor breathe abeg.

It won't still work, the only solution to the all Lagos wahala is to decongest Lagos by dredging of River Niger is the major solution.


How do people live, work and survive in Lagos is still a mystery to me.

EreluRoz:
It won't still work, the only solution to the all Lagos wahala is to decongest Lagos by dredging of River Niger is the major solution.


How do people live, work and survive in Lagos is still a mystery to me.

So when River Niger is dredge. Lagos will be decongested. . You don't know anything.

Right move

madridguy:
The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment & Water Affairs should calm down and take things easy. This is peoples solely source of income and I believe there should be time frame to this.

Hard drugs is also some people major source of income does that mean it mustn't be ban ?

As long as the harm it is causing to the general population and environment is more than the good, then it deserve to be ban without any warning or time frame or what's the timeframe for ? so the dealers can have more time to dispose it and cause more pollution ?

Many people survive on dealing with so many illegal things like drugs, fake goods etc does that mean the government should let them continue causing damage and continue to tolerate it because it is some people source of income and they may not survive otherwise ? even Okada that has been banned in Lagos recently is a major source of income for a lot of people too.

Lagos can take the lead in establishing a sustainable environment

Good

Lazy men with less innovative ideas .... Place like China will convert such for useful purpose..


Only loans them sabi borrow, ideas no join..

Hmmmm.
This is not Good news for those big butts women that use take-away plates to steal party rice in owambe parties.

But Lagos state govt are not even serious. Instead of seeing opportunity in the threat situation, and create mediums thru which they can create wealth and job opportunities by recycling these take-away plastics wastes, they want to kill the industries that manufacture the products.
Our leaders are bereft of innovative ideas that will spur development.
Mumu govt with mumu decision.

Will bottle water be stop as well, we are watching 👀 😎 😂 😉 😀 😏 👀

Measle:
People don suffer for this shit hole country. Everytime the yeye leaders we have will clamping down on it citizens for one reason or the other. Let the poor breathe abeg.

How’s this a clamp down on the poor?

Nicepoker:
So when River Niger is dredge. Lagos will be decongested. . You don't know anything.

He's Jon Snow, he definitely knows nothing

Ok

Iya basira food go soon add money.

What happened to refuse and recycling

Banning as a measure to conceal their own failure.

They should also clamp down on people who are fond of disposing waste in the drainage system. That is the main cause of flooding in most parts of Lagos

In saner climes, there would have commissioned a research for alternative.
And promote the alternative when announcing the phase out of the Styrofoam

Lagos and by extension many Nigerian cities are very dirty sha

madridguy:
The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment & Water Affairs should calm down and take things easy. This is peoples solely source of income and I believe there should be time frame to this.

And who told you they can't find and sell alternatives to Styrofoam.
I'm sure you haven't witnessed the pollution caused by these materials.

Good development by the Lagos state government

How are the food vendors going to sell their food to their customers?
Are there any other alternatives?
May it not look like someone who set his house on fire because of rats.