Abuja — The Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA) will soon use packaged water polythene to grow flowers and other plants in nurseries.Dr Dije Bala, the Chairman of the agency, who stated this in Bauchi on Wednesday in an interview, said the agency would design a method of collecting the sachets and sending them to various plant nurseries for incubation of plants.

She said the action would help to protect the environment from the dangers of packaged water polythene, which, she said, had caused a lot of problems in the farms, water drains and environment generally.

"We will start asking people to collect the used polythene sachets of packaged water to our office so that we can reuse them for plant nurseries. "The packaged water polythene will replace the black ones now being used for such purposes by those running the plant nurseries," she said.

She expressed the hope that the gesture would help to sanitise the environment and get rid of the dangers they posed.

Bala said the agency was in contact with a Kano State based company that produced machines used in separating waste.