Nigeria: Menace of Indiscrimate Dumping

The menace of littering the environment affects the cities and town in Nigeria. Sachet water entails the packaging of drinking water in non-biodegradable polythene. Sachet water, popularly called pure water in Nigeria has become daily intake for an average Nigeria. The evidence of this seems in the amount of disposal sachet, littering the street and also the increase number of drainages blocked by "block" of pure water sachet waste. Pure water was introduced to the Nigerian market around 1990 but its regulation by the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administrative Control (NAFDAC) started in 2001.

It is more alarming when you considered it is a common thing to see our roads flooded with these plastic wastes at any slight shower, drainages bubbling with them and land made barren by these plastic.

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