International Waste Pickers Day: SEDI calls on Edo Government to adhere to zero waste practices and proper solid waste management programme

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By Isaac Eranga

The Sustainable Environment Development Initiative (SEDI) has called on Edo State government to intensify effort in ensuring a properly managed solid waste management programme with “best environmental practices” and “best available technology” options which will integrate and improve capacity and techniques for waste collection and management of an already existing informal sector (waste pickers), develop a platform to embed them and create new employment opportunities.

This call was contained in a Press Statement signed by the Executive Director of SEDI - DR. Tom Aneni in commemoration of the 2024 International Waste Pickers Day. According to the Statement, the increasing complexity and quantity of wastes produced in Edo State has been of increasing concern in recent years. “However, waste management has not been matched by adequate provisions which include funding and infrastructural facilities to sustainably manage this ever growing quantum of waste.

“Nigeria solid waste management policy (2020) presents an overarching principle for solid waste management based on the principles of sustainability in line with economic vitality and ecological integrity. The National Policy on Solid Waste Management (SWM) has been developed as a shared national vision of how solid wastes should be managed more sustainably.

“It is necessary for Edo State to tackle the issue of solid waste with all seriousness, include zero waste practices including segregation of waste at source and establishment of material recovery facilities (MRF) in the State and to align with international best practices and thus adopt solid waste management trends that will: Promote job creation and improved economic activities by establishing waste to wealth schemes and Comply with international best practices in environmental health and safety standards for SWM sector.

“Waste management entails a holistic approach, which spans from reduction, sorting, reuse, collection, storage, transport, recovery, recycling, treatment and disposal in an environmentally sound manner.

“The Edo State Ministry of Environment provides overarching guidance; including policies, legal and regulatory framework for waste management in the State.

“The Local Government Authorities are statutorily charged with direct responsibility for the management of refuse within their domains. However, they presently lack the technical, financial and personnel capacity to fulfill this obligation effectively”, said SEDI.

International Waste Pickers Day is commemorated March 1st every year to pay homage to waste pickers who were murdered in Colombia in 1992 when university guards killed at least 11 waste pickers so that their bodies could be sold to a medical school.

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