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

In saner climes, they hardly use Styrofoam for food, in saner climes people don't discard their waste indiscriminately, In saner climes people think objectively before they make a public pronouncement

kalemy:
How? Enlighten me please.

Do you drink bottled water and mineral?

Do you go to eateries and order take away?

Do you go to parties and drink bottled water?

Do you warm food in take away in your microwave?

Do you store food in your fridge in plastic take away?

As long you do anyone of these then you will know why the ban is very ill timed.

There are so many food businesses that require take away to be in operation even bottled plastic bottled water...

If they enforce this thing so many Lagos may cry....

fergie001:


Tokunbo Wahab
Commissioner for Environment & Water Affairs, Lagos State

What about plastics bottles use for soft drinks

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.

At least he speaks Yoruba.

Oxb90:
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.

This would only increase the price.

It wasn’t thought through at all

So because it is peoples source of income ,so the environmentshould should deplete? What kind of human being are we? We are not ready for change at all. Phew!

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.

Anguldi:
What happened to refuse and recycling

Your country men dump these things indiscriminately. Check drainages, canals and the roadsides, you'll find them defacing our environment. Tell your countrymen to grow and learn how to be clean.

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.

Mallam,this ain't ya business,you should be more kwoncerned about the insecurities in your north..leave south matter, thanks

Paraman:
Why's the government rushing? The timeline should be 1-2 years.

The black man lacks planning skills...its their culture....tinubu also removed subsidy eith immediate effect and the naira redesign policy was also with immediate effect.

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.

pls be using ur sense small small, if u re party people water enter their house spoiling many time or victim of people wey erosion carry go becos of drainage blocked u will not be talking like this. Those one re make there money and other re suffering for it..

There are two different types of "take away" if not more. One is transparent plastic while the other is a foam foil. I believe the one that they are about to ban is the foam foil because it's a single use item.

Brendaniel:


Do you drink bottled water and mineral?

Do you go to eateries and order take away?

Do you go to parties and drink bottled water?

Do you warm food in take away in your microwave?

Do you store food in your fridge in plastic take away?

As long you do anyone of these then you will know why the ban is very ill timed.

There are so many food businesses that require take away to be in operation even bottled plastic bottled water...

If they enforce this thing so many Lagos may cry....

My comment is simply beyond what your cerebrum can process.

huntax:


This is a very senseless post,I'm sorry to say. Did you not see the havoc it's causing to the environmental health?

[quote author=madridguy post=128052414]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. [/quot

Ya have a good point here but ya must bear in mind d character n nature of our people concerned...The government of this part of d world 🌍 are Not like that of d western World where lots of factors are considered before taking such drastic actions...Anyway, let's see how it goes cos this won't be easy to implement...

BigBashiru:


The black man lacks planning skills...its their culture....tinubu also removed subsidy eith immediate effect and the naira redesign policy was also with immediate effect.

Subsidy was suppose to end after the PIB bill was signed by Buhari in 2020 or 2021. The Buhari led FG made provision to pay for subsidy for just 5 month(January -May) in 2023.

Before he became the president, Tinubu said he's not going to subsidize petrol, even if Nigerians protest.

People like you do not follow the news.

Mega chicken

He should ban humans who don't know how to dispose plastics

kalemy:
There are two different types of "take away" if not more. One is transparent plastic while the other is a foam foil. I believe the one that they are about to ban is the foam foil because it's a single use item.

Styrofoam and other single-use plastics in the State with immediate effect.

Bottle water is single use, what other type of single use plastics are they referring to which is not styrofoam?

Don't know why it took the government this long to decide. It remains the main ingredient blocking the drains in the metropolis and getting them out of the way would help clear a lots of deficiencies in our environments. Good one to the LASG team. A greater LAGOS is surely rising.


GOD BLESS LAGOS STATE

EKO O NI BAJE O

Brendaniel:


Do you drink bottled water and mineral?

Do you go to eateries and order take away?

Do you go to parties and drink bottled water?

Do you warm food in take away in your microwave?

Do you store food in your fridge in plastic take away?

As long you do anyone of these then you will know why the ban is very ill timed.

There are so many food businesses that require take away to be in operation even bottled plastic bottled water...

If they enforce this thing so many Lagos may cry....

Understand the context before painting the government blacks. The items you listed ain't affected as they're not single-use packs but recyclables. what the government banned is the foam-like packs often called styrofoams which often has no second value. Infact, the lots you mentioned are the alternatives and would continue to be in the market because they end up getting recycled to another like products.

Brendaniel:




Oga read again...

What you're listing ain't SINGLE USE COMMODITIES. single use commodities are so named because they haven't any second value. your plastic bottles would still be in use despite this ban. but you have your right to disbelieve anything whether ignorantly or deliberately. It's your cup of coffee

dawnomike:
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.

You are right but the UAE is an entire nation and Lagos is a state in an nation.
Mind you the UAE is not facing the same environmental challenges as Lagos so it would be foolish to apply the same strategy as the UAE.
That said.
Don you think Nigeria as a nation is applying theirs gradually starting with Lagos?
Why do Nigerians hate policies that are aimed at bringing positive change.
The entire state should continue to endure the environmental challenges brought by the packs because a few people sell it and make a living from it?
How exactly do Nigerians think?

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.

We suffer both rich and poor.

Brendaniel:




Bottle water is single use, what other type of single use plastics are they referring to which is not styrofoam?

Bottle water is not Styrofoam Oga, though its a single use item.

Flame333:
Lazy men with less innovative ideas .... Place like China will convert such for useful purpose..


Only loans them sabi borrow, ideas no join..

Our leaders their brains is only in there corrupted lifestyle. Buy Big cars and carry themselves up with ill-gotten wealth and they think we and Gods are fools that don't know what is happening.

Good. Long overdue.
Everybody should learn to use their own plate or cooler to buy food.

kalemy:
Bottle water is not Styrofoam Oga, though its a single use item.

Styrofoam and other single-use plastics in the State with immediate effect.

Oga read their statement above now, they said Styrofoam and other single use plastics in the state....

Na wa

This company should pay indirect tax for is plastic. For it clean up.