 Well back with the breakfast and plus CV Africa just quickly would be looking at the issue of global recycling which is an international you know day and awareness we have a guest joining us this morning for like a salau coordinator of green recovery Nigeria right here in Lagos for like it's good to have you join us this morning thank you so much thank you for having me yes please so we know that you know on the 18th of March it's been mapped out as an annual event and it's start the global recycling day which is like I mentioned with the aim of spreading awareness about the rapid pace at which natural resources are depleting and the need for recycling it you know to slowing it down or slowing all the hazard that probably might just be happening to the environment I like you to quickly share your thoughts on this juxtaposing that with the fact that you know just a tiny fraction of waste is recycled in Nigeria for a country where you have over 200 million plus consumers yes really recycling is a sustainable way of reducing waste the most common one that we are all familiar with is a plastic waste so the more we are able to reduce the plastic waste in the environment by recycling them into more useful products the better for the environment the better for everyone and even the aesthetics you know when you see this plastic waste lying on our beaches lying everywhere and the drainage is causing flooding you'll appreciate the importance of recycling this waste you know to ensure that actually they don't get to the dump site they don't get to where our oceans they don't get to the drainages and we make good use of them by saving more natural resources that will otherwise constitute a new sense to the environment okay but also and what ways can we can we people you know jump on the recycling train I mean for people who have who generate waste on a daily basis you know in Nigeria it's a different ball game so how is it possible for the average man or woman on the street to to recycle their waste and how can we do that okay so practically it's not it's not easy for individuals to do the recycling themselves because it involves some industrial processes but at individual level we can learn to sort our waste there are people who collect plastic waste from households from collection centers and then aggregate them for people who will eventually process this plastic waste or any other waste the case maybe it's not only plastic for instance we also have a wood waste that can also be processed into reusable particle boards and some other useful product so what we should be advocating for is waste selection separation at household level where people separate their recyclable waste from the general waste so that people who collect this waste for recycling will be able to easily pick them up as separated waste and then take them to where they can be recycled and then there are a lot of there is a recycling association in in Nigeria and they have what they call the collectors those are people who pick them either from dump sites or households and then they have who they those that they call the aggregators like the collection centers where these people take them to and then from the aggregators then it goes into those who take them for for processing so at individual level we should be looking at awareness to encourage people to separate their waste and it's not just separating the waste it's also there's monetary involvement because people who collect this waste product also pay tokens for the waste so we need to just create the necessary awareness for people to know that there is wealth in the waste that they are generating and not everything should end up in their waste bins they should separate those that can be recycled from those that cannot be recycled so but let's talk about the awareness and you know the structure do you think that as a country we have done enough in terms of awareness and creating structures to ensure that we're recycling no I don't think we've done enough awareness like in most in western wars for instance it's for every household you have different type of bins for different types of waste we've not gotten to that stage in Nigeria and I think there's need for policy to ensure that at household level you have different waste collection bins for different purposes with the ultimate aim to encourage recycling give people oh this color couldn't be maybe blue for for plastic waste maybe green for bottles and something like that that is known by everyone and then helps everyone to be able to partake actively in waste separation from household level before it gets to the the dump site so I think we need to do a lot of awareness creation on this but with necessary policies to ensure that it's not just an obligation that people are compelled to separate their waste from household level so it's all about the right policies and a lot of awareness creation from the government agencies all right very very important one thank you very much for your time madam as the world is marking recycling day you've given us some information that I'm sure we put to to use we'll make our world a better day especially in these days of going green and we look forward to having you in subsequent discussions as we look at the issue of environmental awareness sustainability and all that for like for lakesh salaw is a coordinator of green recovery nigeria and she's been a guest on a second discussion right here on the breakfast thank you madam for your time thank you for having me well that's the size of our conversation this morning on the breakfast we really appreciate the fact that you've been with us 70 am up until this point let's return tomorrow and do the same time that's all right to join the conversation if you missed that on any part of it we're on facebook twitter and instagram and you can subscribe to our youtube channel at plus tv africa and on the other hand plus tv africa lifestyle my name is messi bopo to have a great morning it's been been quite a very heated one today very the issues of the country are seriously seriously uh uh tough you know to handle and we look forward to seeing the process run its full cost and you can be sure uh that we have plus we have cow always translate the passion that is felt out there and bring it to the studio so that you can we can give the best program my name is kofi buttles thank you very much for your time we'll return tomorrow