Ensuring
proper waste disposal
MDG
Goal 7 “ensure
environmental sustainability”
Donation of twelve (12) waste
collection bins to Sabon Afaka community, Igabi LGA of Kaduna State in 2010. This is my contribution to the actualization
of the Millennium Development Goal 7 in that small community. A community
without a culture of proper waste disposal, residents takes to the drainage and
open field to dump refuse. This led to blockage in the available drainages in
the community and accumulation of stagnant dirty water which aid the breeding of
mosquitoes that causes malaria. Dumping refuse in open field within the
community also led to the spread of air-borne diseases which is dangerous to
the health of the people and their general hygiene is compromised.
This is a common
trend in Nigeria, even in urban communities; the culture of proper waste disposal
must be cultivated. We have modern houses without waste bin and drainages and
the resident often dump refuse indiscriminately around their houses or any
undeveloped property. We need to put an end to this unhealthy practice and
ensure we maintain a clean and green environment.
Regular environmental
sanitation should be observed in our communities and government should empower
environmental sanitation agencies to inspect from street to street, domestic
properties, industries and ensure people comply with the environmental and
sanitation laws of the country and apply proper sanctions when necessary.
The challenge of
environmental sustainability needs to be holistically attended to; from the problem
of desert encroachment in the north, erosion and land slide in the west, to oil
spillage in the south and flood in most part of the country. The government and
agencies saddled with such responsibility needs to be proactive and pragmatic
in their approach to sustaining the environment. The plan by the government to
build green walls to cover several thousand kilometers to prevent desert encroachment
and prevention of oil spillage and cleaning of already affected community
should go beyond the pages of newspapers but to reality.
The indiscriminate discharge
of exhaust, burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests needs to be
controlled to prevent the continuous depletion of the ozone layer and green
house effect causing global warming. Liquid chemicals from industries into our
rivers need to be addressed because it poses great danger to our aquatic
animals and unemployment to fishermen. Companies with such chemical liquid
waste need to build water treatment plant and ensure the liquid is safe before
discharge into our rivers.
We all need to work
together to ensure environmental sustainability and preserve nature, it begins
with you and me, if we do the needful in our sphere of contact and mobilize
others around us to do likewise; together we can make the world a better place
and ensure environmental sustainability.
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