By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta

The Nigeria Environmental Society (NES), Abeokuta chapter, has called on residents of the state to put an end to plastic pollution and its menace on the environment for a cleaner, healthier and safer society.

The Chairman of the society, Alhaji Badmus Jamiu made the call in a statement, made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, to mark the 2025 World Environment Day, with the theme; “Putting An End to Plastic Pollution”.

According to Jamiu, although plastic is very useful to human existence and serves as source of livelihood to millions of people, its menace when it gets into the environment is hazardous, saying that it stays longer and fail to degrade thereby causing untold environmental menace.

He said, “aside from these, plastic pollution also constitute health risk particularly to aquatic life which will invariably come back to the society, so there is the need for residents of the state to put an end to plastic pollution by properly managing their plastic waste and lash on to different government initiative such as the Blue Box Programme championed by the Ogun State government”.

“Our people should also try as much as possible to separate plastics from their waste for onward sale to recyclers near them instead of mingling them with the normal waste thereby saving the environment of their hazards.

While wishing residents of the state a hitch-free World Environment Day celebration, Jamiu counseled residents of the state to take issues of environment seriously as environment is where we all live, depend on it for our survival while our life expectancy also depends on it so the need for it to be treated with utmost care and respect.