Environmental engineers intensify campaign on E-Waste management

The Nigeria Institution of Environmental Engineers (NIEE) on Monday, said it would intensify its campaign on proper waste management particularly, the Electronic waste (E-WASTE) for a greener and safer environment.

The chairperson, NIEE, Mrs Abiola Kosegbe, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos at the sideline of the facility tour of Eterra on Ewaste management.NIEE is an institution that caters for the development of professionals who are interested in the development of the environment.

NAN reports that E-waste is discarded electrical or electronic devices. These are used electronics which are destined for reuse, resale, salvage, recycling, or disposal.Kosegbe said that as professional engineers on environment, there was need to promote greener and cleaner environment and bring to lime light facilities that would promote such, hence the visit.

She said that the institution became interested and initiated the visit when having heard about the facility.She added that NIEE was interested in partnering Eterra, to assist its in promoting cleaner and safer environment. Kosegbe commended the company for a first class work on management of e-waste, saying e-waste was one of the very difficult wastes to manage.

She said, there is mismanagement of e-waste in this part of the world where we import and use lots of used electronic waste only to mismanage them.
”So as it is now, our interest is to bring Eterra to the limelight so that people are aware that this facilities are available to manage the e-waste according to the internationally accepted standard.

”The issue of waste has been ongoing for a long time; the Lagos state government has developed and put in place policies towards the management of e-waste.”Even the management of the normal waste is still an issue but with such facility and awareness, there will be proper management of e-waste,’’she said.

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