The Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA), recently partnered with the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) and the Lagos State Recyclers Association (LAGRA) to celebrate the third anniversary of the Lagos Recycling Initiative.

The Alliance, with current membership of 28 organizations, was established in 2018 as the industry-coalition Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO) for enhancing the collection and recovery of post-consumer packaging material in the Food and Beverage sector.

Within the last four years, the Alliance in partnership with stakeholders in the waste value chain in Lagos state has impacted over fifty communities to educate and create awareness on recycling, facilitated the training of 3,000 waste pickers and has supported
the collection of over 25,000MT of recyclables for recovery to productive use through partnership with over 12 packaging waste aggregators. FBRA has also partnered with several NGOs to educate children in schools on the need for responsible disposal
including recycling and have provided 75 recycling collection giant bins in schools, public spaces, and communities.

The focus is for Alliance member companies to contribute
funds to support the waste management operations of the waste ecosystem through the
implementation of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in the packaging sector.

Speaking at the event, the Executive Secretary of the Alliance, Onaghise Agharese emphasised the importance of source segregation at point of generation within homes and organisations to enhance the quality of the recyclables harvested.

She also emphasised the need for collaborative efforts of all relevant stakeholders to implement
an effective waste management system whilst pledging the commitment of the Alliance member companies to support more projects.

The MD of LAWMA, Ibrahim Odumboni made a call out to all Food and Beverage organisations to join the efforts of the Alliance and informed all that the Agency is set to  implement the Adopt the Bin Initiative where all households are expected to use the blue