Anambra State Government in collaboration with Anambra State Waste Recyclers Association, ASWRA, has set a one-million-naira-prize-money for winners of the All Anambra Plastic Waste Recovery Challenge, scheduled to kick off on June eight, 2023.
The state commissioner for Environment, Engineer Felix Odimegwu, who unveiled plans for the challenge in Awka, noted that it is part of arrangements to commemorate this year’s World Environment Day.
Engineer Odimegwu, disclosed that the challenge fixed for June eight to July seven, 2023, is a holistic action to mitigate plastic pollution.
He also announced that the plastic recovery challenge would be carried out at community levels within the one hundred and seventy-nine communities in the twenty-one local government areas of the state.
While ensuring even spread of opportunity for participating communities, Engineer Odimegwu noted that one hundred and seventy-nine communities have been grouped into three categories of urban, semi-urban and rural with winner from each category going home with the sum of one million naira.
Explaining further, the Commissioner stressed that each of the one hundred and seventy-nine communities will have one month to pick up plastic waste around their area, while the community that collected the largest number of plastics will go home with the prize money.
Engineer Odimegwu who noted that plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental problems in the world, said that the theme of the 2023 World Environment Day which focuses on the solution to plastic pollution globally, raises awareness on what everyone must do to mitigate the problem.
He said that to achieve a plastic-free Anambra State, all residents must practice the five-Rs in waste management and principles of circular economy which are: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Recycle, as they target to get rid of ten thousand tons of plastics, stuck in streets, homes, drainages and waterways.
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