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Every corner of Lagos State, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, is currently littered with waste.
From market places to entertainment, sports arenas, to road medians, to drainage, and to expressways, waste materials are all over the place.
The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) appears overwhelmed by the volume of waste generated in Lagos.
Similarly, the Private Sector Participant (PSP) arrangement also seems to have broken down, with residents in many hard-to-reach areas of the state patronising cart pushers instead of government approved waste collectors. In many parts of Lagos, residents have become more lawless as they dump their wastes indiscriminately.
According to environmentalists, this act calls for reorientation of Lagosians, especially those selling in the markets and by roadsides on the benefit of proper waste disposal – a consciousness
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