Nestlé Nigeria has taken its environmental campaign into a nationwide clean-up drive, deploying more than 400 volunteers across 12 locations in a move that underlines how consumer goods companies are increasingly using community partnerships to tackle Nigeria’s mounting waste challenge.
The food and beverage company said its 2026 World Environment Day campaign recovered 4,556 kilograms of waste, including 4,507.8 kilograms of solid waste and 48.2 kilograms of recyclable materials, through clean-up and sensitisation activities held in Lagos, Abuja, Agbara, Jos, Kano, Enugu, Awka, Ota, Abaji, Sagamu, Port Harcourt and Ibadan.
The exercise, carried out with support from the African Clean-Up Initiative and the Recyclers Association of Nigeria, involved 424 volunteers drawn from Nestlé’s employee volunteering platform, Nestlé Cares, as well as 15 coalition partners.
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