Business LAWMA to build 20 new transfer loading station

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In a bid to step up the management of waste in the State, the Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA has unveiled plans to construct 20 Transfer Loading Stations, TLS to serve 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas across the state. Tis was disclosed by the acting managing director of the authority, Mrs Abimbola Jijho-Ogun during the second “Waste to Food” initiative programme, an annual event that seeks to imbibe the culture of waste sorting and recycling in children and corporate organization.

The event, which was held at Agege Stadium, Lagos last weekend, taught children the advantages of integrated solid waste management with recycling as the future of waste management. The LAWMA acting MD maintained that the initiative will ensure that recyclable materials collected by children are rewarded with food and gift vouchers that are redeemable at designated depots. The approach is an incentive to encourage the children to participate actively in the recycling programme.


According to Jijho-Ogun, LAWMA has established recycling banks across the State for the collection of papers, cans, aluminum scraps and plastics. The LAWMA boss said the organization has embarked on the production of green energy which is evident at the Olusosun Landfill site where it has developed gas well to manage and recycle municipal solid waste.


“As part of our drive towards clean and sustainable environment through modern waste management practices, the Authority has two Transfer Loading Stations, with the third one on its way. This is part of the plan to have 20 to serve the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas”.


The Oshodi Transfer Loading Station has the installation of healthcare waste treatment equipment which is first of its kind in West Africa sub-region that has a combined capacity to treat a total of 1000 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste and 24 metric tonnes of healthcare waste per day.

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