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.

its a welcome development. Source 9f what income, at whose detriment. How una dey thin gan sef

CharleyBright:
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.

If there is an opportunity to recycle them, why not setup the factory. When will Nigerians realize it's not the job of government to set up factory for everything.

If it's so easy, go and set it up.

zelnababa:
what re we using before?

Oh o. Back in the day if you know you are going to buy food, you take your bowl from home. When you return home, you wash it and use again tomorrow.

This indoomie, social media, instant money, Okada generation won't know.

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 at what cost?

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

bottle water plastic is money now

CameroonPepper:
So what should be used in their place?

the plastic type that one is recyclable

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.

No be only time frame.

It is because of thinking like this that Nigeria is where it is today.

So because some people are making money off plastics, some other people should bear the brunt of it abi? Abi, the livelihood of a few people is more important than the health of an entire city.

Abeg....

emenezer:
Rather than ban the sale, why not regulate and monitor the disposal of these packs... The ban won't stop plastics from being littered around the streets.... Humans drop them off there

Regulte and monitor? In the Nigeria? Seems you don't know the country you live in. If you don't come down hard on Nigerians no policy works. We have zero self regulating mechanisms in our brains. W are the most difficult people to manage.

This thing is actually better than plastic , plastic takes literally 100 of years before a single one decays , and even then it doesn’t decompose completely it just gets smaller and smaller. Using this should be encouraged.

fergie001:


Tokunbo Wahab
Commissioner for Environment & Water Affairs, Lagos State

Welcome development!

CameroonPepper:
So what should be used in their place?

All those Yoruba families wey no Sabi cook for house should go and learn, how can a whole family of 10 be lining up to buy ewa agoyin 150 and bread 100 naira each?

All those talking down on the ban, I am sure you are part of the bush illiterates that will just dump plastics anyhow. The other day I saw a woman, dressed up like a bank worker, step out of an AC Corolla with a sack full of plastic bottles and take away packs and empty the bag over a bridge into the canal, and I was like.....WTF?

People where even challenging her and she had the mouth to even talk back.

Na una type be that

I support this %💯

When you have leaders without thinking caps.....I guess the word recycling is strange to them. they should also banned bottle water and ban the usage of PVC Materials as wrap for every commodities.....

abbey621:


So our government thinks it is smarter than the U.S govt? Even UAE are gradually phasing it out by introducing alternatives but 9ja everything is done abruptly! Anyways anything that amplifies the suffering of the people is always the main aim of the Nigerian governemnt so we need not be SHOCKED!

UAE that's phasing it out gradually, when you go there, is this how their gutters and canals are filled with the stuff?

[quote author=EreluRoz post=128052903]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.

Abdulmumuni,not only to dredge river Niger,they should dredge river Nile to solve the problem of how people live and work in Lagos

gentleguy1975:
and pure water too

Abi ooooooo

PureFace1:


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.

Get him right. He said there should be a time frame

PHAYOL81:
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



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.

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

Oga read again...

With this logic then the good it is doing is way more than the harm

PureFace1:


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.

Na to dey press rice inside nylon dey chop like my primary school days be that na. I suggest this to those people celebrating bdays and marriage to do during item 7 . He save cost

Regardless of political leanings this is a great move. However it will become an opportunity for some "tast force" touts and police to harass and extort citizens. No be Nigeria again?

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.

How is River Niger connected to Lagos? 🧐

Femeto:
How is River Niger connected to Lagos? 🧐

Then you know nothing about Port and congestion.


You lots here don't know it constitute greatly to the overpopulation in Lagos

CameroonPepper:
So what should be used in their place?

What were we using before?

Instead of government to reintroduce the Last Saturday of the month sanitation exercise. This is when you also punish neighborhoods that don’t dispose their waste properly. We can also go the Rwanda way. Where government provide paper bags for food and nothing like plastic bags or take away packs.

This is fake news. It's not on Lagos state government website. We should not be hasty in beating down our leaders. Verify every News before reacting.

fergie001:


Tokunbo Wahab
Commissioner for Environment & Water Affairs, Lagos State

High time they did. Was expecting they did this a long time ago.👍

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.

If people choose to behave like animals, then they will be treated like animals. You just carry plastics and throw in the rivers and in the gutter. Tommorow there is flood and you blame the government.

Some of the stuff made of Styrofoam are Cancerous and the ban is justified in the right time.

Let's make use of Banana leaf and enjoy our natural immunity.

EreluRoz:
Then you know nothing about Port and congestion.


You lots here don't know it constitute greatly to the overpopulation in Lagos

Answer my question. How is it linked in terms of sanitation and flooding of streets with take away packs? Is the River connected to Lagos in anyway? I only know of the Ogun River.