End plastic pollution: NES urges residents to join fight for cleaner environment

By Adejoke Adeleye

As the world celebrates the 2025 World Environment Day, the Nigeria Environmental Society NES, Abeokuta Chapter, has called on residents of the state to put an end to plastic pollution and its menace on the environment for a cleaner, healthier and safer society.

The 2025 World Environment Day’s theme is “Putting An End to Plastic Pollution.”

The Chairman of the Chapter Alhaji Badmus Jamiu made the call in a statement in Abeokuta to mark the day.

According to him, although plastic is very useful to human existence and serves as source of livelihood to millions, its menace when it gets into the environment,  is hazardous as it stays longer and fails to degrade thereby, causing untold environmental menace.

He said, “Aside from this, plastic pollution also constitutes health risk particularly to aquatic life which will invariably come back to the society, so there is the need for residents of the state to put an end to plastic pollution by properly managing their plastic waste and lash on to different government initiative such as the Blue Box Programme championed by the Ogun State government.

“Our people should also try as much as possible to separate plastics from their waste for onward sale to recyclers near them instead of mingling them with the normal waste thereby saving the environment of their hazards.

While wishing residents of the state a hitch-free World Environment Day celebration, Jamiu also used the opportunity to counsel residents  to take issues of the environment seriously.