 As the world celebrates World Environment Day, Action Aid Nigeria has taken advocacy to Yangya Motor Park and the FCT on the dangers inherent in the proper disposal of plastic solutions to humans and the environment. It holds Nigerians to embrace green energy as a way of preserving the environment to make it friendly for mankind and every living creature on the planet. Minister Adi Wale Adi Dutton, the social mobilisation manager of Action Aid Nigeria, explained the importance of the day and why world hands must be on deck to save the world from this global catastrophe. Because of the mindless manner that we trash our refuse, we find women and past our animals, cow, goat, sheep and cow. In the name of having salt or maybe oil within this nylon bag, making them and they consume. It goes into their system, they ingest it and micro plastic find its way into their body, which we also buy later to say we have beef and protein. So what this does to our system is that it complicate issues and compromise our well-being. In this manner too, whether we like it or not, all these that we throw into the system get backed into our own very system. We are a way that has a policy on the elimination of plastics and then we want government to enforce this policy all across the country. It's not about Nigeria signing conventions, about Nigeria going to conferences, but we want to see the effect of the conferences in Nigeria. We want communities to be involved. There are a lot of opportunities for community women, if we ban plastics, we have baskets. Women, we have baskets in the communities. This is one of one solution to plastic in Nigeria. So if we ban plastic and call it the use of baskets, our women in the communities will benefit. They will be out of this economic medium that they have been in from ages. So we use this opportunity to call on government. A lot of people use this place and there's a lot of refuse disposal going on. And as we started this work to pick debts, one of the PAC management has actually told us that they've initiated programs before to keep the PAC clean, but they have a problem around waste management. So whether they gather the PAC, what happens? The waste management agencies don't come to pick the PAC with debts, or the waste that has been gathered as they're supposed to be. And so what they have to do is they gather the debts, waste in one location and then they pay boys who come and pick them to distant waste disposal points. So that is a major issue and that was one of the reasons why we came. Besides that, this is a PAC and there are a lot of people selling different kinds of things, water, drinks and all that. And so when they use all these containers, they dispose them anyhow. And so the idea was to sensitize them, conscientize them on the need to beat plastic pollution. What is the theme of the World Environment Day? And to sensitize them on the causes and damages that plastic pollution can cause in the environment. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.