Sir: As long as I can remember, people did make a habit of separating their paper waste from other forms of waste and stacking them up. I have seen people call out on Twitter that they have stacks of magazines they don’t want to just throw away in the bin and if anyone can come over to the house and pick them up. I had a friend who was a publisher of the magazine, and he also put a call out when he was moving offices that he had stacks of old magazines for anyone to come over and pick them up and make alternative use for.
We all need to practice simple recycling habits to contribute to a cleaner environment and reduce waste. Recycling can take the form of photocopying or writing on both sides of the paper, using water dispensers with paper cups and fewer bottles, using energy-efficient bulbs, going solar, using inverters, using less petrol, carpooling, and also turning off all the sockets at the end of the day.
Recycling, just like anything else, needs to be a simple daily habit. The hardest part is making it a habit.
Soil pollution is something we should all be concerned about! Properly disposing of hazardous materials, having good recycling habits, and reusing common household items are simple things you can do each day to keep junk out of our soil and our food safe to eat.
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Remember, recycling is a collective effort, and small individual actions can make a significant impact when practised consistently. By incorporating these simple recycling habits into your daily routine, you can contribute to a greener and more sustainable Nigeria.
Thankfully, we’re having a lot of success with plastic bottles as most people separate their plastic bottles and give them out to their domestic help or others to sell. There are certain schools in Nigeria where the student pays their school fees with plastic bottle waste. Now there are more and more recycling plastic bottle plants all over the place, and it’s a sign of progress. I mean, we started with paper and now we have plastic, and we can only get better.
Recycling is important because the longer we recycle, the longer it takes before it gets to the landfills, which are far too full, and it’s very hard to get new ones because of urban expansion.
Earth has a finite amount of resources, and as the population increases and modernization develops those resources, there would be not much left for the next generation or even to go around for everyone on Earth.
- Ovigho Richard Okojevoh,<mrsafetyabc@gmail.com