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  • FBRA champions action to ensure more cleaner societies

    FBRA champions action to ensure more cleaner societies

    Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA) has again demonstrated its commitment to Nigeria’s recycling movement by mobilising stakeholders to take part in this year’s World Cleanup Day in collaboration with Let’s Do It Nigeria.

    In Lagos, the event at Ikosi-Ketu saw FBRA rally staff from member companies, regulators, volunteers, waste collectors, street sweepers and community advocates for an awareness walk and clean-up that cleared over 830kg of post-consumer packaging waste from the fruit market and its environs. The popular BuyBack Initiative lit up the day as residents trooped out to exchange recyclables for food products from FBRA member companies, turning waste recovery into an inclusive, community-driven activity.

    “This is more than a symbolic event,” said FBRA’s Executive Director, Agharese Onaghise. “World Cleanup Day is a call to action, and FBRA is proud to lead the charge in building cleaner communities while advancing our mission of responsible waste recovery and the circular economy.”

    FBRA’s leadership went beyond Lagos. In partnership with Recyclers Association of Nigeria and Let’s Do It Nigeria, simultaneous clean-ups were held in Abia, Anambra, Abuja, Kaduna, Rivers, Edo, Enugu, Kwara, and Ogun, showing its nationwide reach.

    By combining advocacy, infrastructure support, and community engagement, FBRA set the standard for producer responsibility in Nigeria. The event aligns with FBRA’s commitment to driving circular economy solutions in the food, beverage and tobacco sector.

    The Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance is an industry-led producer responsibility organisation focused on recovery and recycling of post-consumer packaging waste in Nigeria. With 47 member companies, including major FMCG brands, recyclers and producers, FBRA promotes sustainable practice through advocacy, collection, and public education.

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    Registered in March 2018 as the Industry Coalition for Food and Beverage Sector, the Packaging Producer Responsibility Organisation was established to implement the Extended Producer Responsibility in Nigeria.

    The Alliance has membership drawn from responsible and forward-thinking companies which includes Nigerian Bottling Company Plc, Nigerian Breweries Plc, Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited, Nestle Nigeria Plc, Guinness Nigeria Plc, Intercontinental Distillers Limited, International Breweries Limited, Tulip Cocoa, Prima Corporation Limited, DOW Chemicals, Tetra Pak West Africa, The LaCasera Company Plc, Engee PET Manufacturing Company Limited, Omnik Limited, UAC Foods Limited, Unilever Nigeria Plc, Perfetti Van Melle, CHI Limited, Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Limited, Promasidor Nigeria Limited, Beta Glass Plc Industries Nigeria Limited, Kellogg Tolaram Plc, CWAY Limited, Dufil Plc, Friesland Campina WAMCO, PolySmart Group, Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Zard Group, British American Tobacco, GZI, Flour Mills of Nigeria, Quantum Plastics, Crown Flour Mills, Pentagon Plastic, Sonnex Packaging Nigeria Limited, Rite Foods, Salient Group, SIG Combibloc, Sacvin Nigeria Limited, Alef Recycling Company Limited, Hana Packaging Limited, Innoplas Company Limited, Green Apple Agro Allied Limited, Celplas Industries Nigeria Limited, Sonhart Industries Limited, Crownpack Nigeria Limited and Indorama Ventures.  For more information, contact:  info@fbranigeria.ng. www.fbranigeria.ng.

  • FBRA deepens circular economy awareness

    FBRA deepens circular economy awareness

    • Sensitises pupils, youths, communities

    Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA) has reaffirmed its commitment to environmental sustainability with initiatives on education, advocacy, and infrastructure support.

    The alliance also unveiled impactful activities to mark 2025 World Environment Day, with the theme: “Beat Plastic Pollution.”

    FBRA’s campaign this year centres on promoting circular economy, fostering behavioural change, and empowering young Nigerians to lead environmental action.

    In line with its youth-centric strategy, FBRA kicked off the day with an advocacy at Mainland Senior High School, Fadeyi, Lagos. The session engaged over 630 pupils on importance of recycling, dangers of improper waste disposal, and role young people play in preserving the environment.

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    To support sustainable waste practice in the school, FBRA donated upcycled eco-friendly bags made from repurposed post-consumer flexible packaging, educational materials on recycling, a weighing scale for tracking recyclables, a giant waste bin and two jumbo-sized recycling bags to encourage sorting and collection of plastic waste.

    The pupils hailed the hands-on demonstration and pledged to be environmental ambassadors in their communities.

    FBRA, with staff from member firms, volunteers, waste pickers and community advocates, held an awareness walk on Adeniji Jones, Ikeja. Participants engaged with residents and commuters, driving home messages of responsible disposal and benefits of recycling.

    With placards, branded vests, and street-level energy, the walk served as an effort to drive home the urgency of environmental restoration.

    FBRA thereafter hosted a buy-back programme at Adekunle village in Ikeja, where residents got FBRA member company products in exchange for recyclables. The initiative, in partnership with local collection partners, raised awareness on economic value of post-consumer packaging and offered residents a reason to engage in waste segregation.

    To further strengthen plastic waste recovery, it launched two collection centres in Nasarawa, Abuja as drop-off points for recyclables, bridging the gap between community members and recyclers.

    By adding new collection centres, FBRA is creating a more efficient ecosystem that supports the Nigerian government’s broader waste management goals.

    Through collaboration with partners, schools, waste collectors, and the general public, FBRA’s 2025 World Environment Day campaign is a testament to the power of community action, education, and infrastructure development in delivering real impact for people and the planet.