• Environmentalists take awareness to markets in Rivers
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, yesterday, reiterated the need for multi-sectoral effort and technological innovations to protect the environment, calling on stakeholders to continue exploring innovations to solve pressing environmental challenges.
The governor said this in commemoration of World Environment Day, which is marked every year by the United Nations (UN) and its sister agencies.
Also, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has reiterated the need to ensure reduction in plastic waste to minimise damage done to the environment through the menace of plastic pollution.
Director, HOMEF, Nnimmo Bassey, who led other environmentalists to celebrate the world Environment Day reiterated the benefits of recycling/reuse of plastic waste to promote wellness and create wealth.
Bassey spoke in Benin City during the School of Ecology on Climate Change, tagged, ‘Arts, Culture and Wellness,’ orgnised by HOMEF in commemoration of this year’s World Environment Day.
Obaseki, in a statement, noted that this year’s theme for the World Environment Day, ‘Solutions to Plastic Pollution,’ is apt and relevant, as it stresses the increasing need for collective action to stem the menace in the wake of rapid industrialisation.
Obaseki said: “As we mark the World Environment Day today, we are presented with another opportunity to review actions and efforts taken over the years to protect the environment, build alliances, deploy technological innovations and ensure that we leave this world better for unborn generations.
ALSO, environmentalists, drawn from different parts of Rivers State, yesterday, took awareness of plastic pollution to major markets in Port Harcourt.
The coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), which carried out the campaign to mark World Environment Day, with the theme, ‘Beat Plastic Pollution: Solution to Plastic Pollution,’ went to Mile 1 and Fruit Garden markets in Port Harcourt.
The Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre noted that the sensitisation programme was a reminder that people’s actions on plastic pollution matter.
According to the Executive Director of the centre, Emem Okon, the time to accelerate actions to address plastic pollution and transition to a circular economy cannot be overemphasized.
