{"id":77136,"date":"2023-11-06T17:31:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=77136"},"modified":"2023-11-06T17:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:56:37","slug":"environmental-sustainability-nestle-nigeria-is-committed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/environmental-sustainability-nestle-nigeria-is-committed\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Sustainability: Nestle Nigeria Is Committed"},"content":{"rendered":"

To work towards its vision of a waste-free future, Nestl\u00e9 Nigeria takes necessary actions to promote behavioral changes, and to build a circular ecosystem in waste management, starting from the company\u2019s employees and extending to the communities closest to its operations and to a wider audience across Nigeria.<\/p>\n

With a strong commitment to help protect, renew and restore the environment, the company is implementing many initiatives promoting Environmental Sustainability.<\/p>\n

\"\"In 2022, Nestl\u00e9 Nigeria launched her employee plastics collection scheme which inspires staff to protect the environment and combat plastic pollution by inculcating the habit of
\nsorting wastes at source and recycling for sustainable environmental management.<\/p>\n

Through the scheme, employees return all plastic materials, not limited to the company\u2019s brands, and earn points culminating in exciting rewards and management recognitions.<\/p>\n

\"\"Over the years, the company has partnered with the Lagos Business School Sustainability Centre on the \u201cAdvancing Nutrition, Health and Environmental Awareness
\nthrough the Media\u201d training which equips journalists to effectively communicate and educate the Nigerian populace on global best practices and lifestyle choices that impact everyday living and carry out fact-based reporting on nutrition, health, wellness, the
\nenvironment, climate change, and corporate sustainability practices.<\/p>\n

Nestl\u00e9 has also extended her education campaign to the younger generations through the Sustainability Training for Kids which enables children imbibe a sustainability mindset from an early age, thereby preparing them to become better stewards of the planet.<\/p>\n

The training implemented in collaboration with the International Climate Change Development Initiative (ICCDI), furnishes children with information on waste management, introduces them to the conversion of waste to useful items, and encourages them to adopt positive behavioral changes to enhance environmental
\nsustainability.<\/p>\n

\"\"The children are also taught sorting of waste at source with the donation of segregated bins to participating schools.<\/p>\n

In Nigeria where we have a nascent waste collection system, poorly managed waste ends up in waterways and clogs drainages, exacerbating the environmental hazards, including flooding which we are increasingly experiencing due to the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n

Data shows that Nigeria generates more than 32 million tons of waste per year with Lagos alone producing about 10,000 metric tons of waste daily. Addressing the plastic waste challenge requires behavior change from all and Nestl\u00e9 believes that there is no better place to start than from within.<\/p>\n

Nestl\u00e9 Nigeria is therefore collaborating internally and with external stakeholders to address the waste challenge in line with the company\u2019s global vision that none of its postconsumer packaging waste ends up in waterways or as litter in the environment.<\/p>

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The World Clean-Up Day commemorated annually in September, provides a platform for Nestl\u00e9\u2019s employees to help promote awareness on environmentally sound waste management practices for a clean, safe and sustainable planet. Every year, volunteers under Nestl\u00e9 Cares, the company\u2019s global employee volunteering initiative, collaborate with the Africa Clean-Up Initiative (ACI), an NGO passionate about raising environmentally responsible citizens, for clean-up, sensitization and advocacy on Environmental Sustainability.<\/p>\n

\"\"This year, over 400 Nestl\u00e9 employees joined the campaign by visiting twelve markets across the country. The clean-up exercise executed in Lagos, Kano, Port Harcourt, Sagamu, Ibadan, Jos, Abuja, Awka, Ota, Agbara, Enugu and Abaji, was powered by MAGGI, one of Nestl\u00e9\u2019s leading brands.<\/p>\n

Nestl\u00e9 Nigeria\u2019s Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Manager, Victoria Uwadoka, said, \u201cAt Nestl\u00e9, we are taking concrete actions to protect, renew and restore the environment every day. We are conscious that indiscriminate waste disposal coupled with limited recovery services aggravate the waste crisis. We also recognize that creating
\nawareness through advocacy is necessary on our journey towards a waste free future. Our priorities therefore, include improving post consumption plastic waste management by motivating behavioral changes and creating an efficient recovery system in
\ncollaboration with other industry and community stakeholders. We are also accelerating sustainability education through our employees, the media, our communities and children in our Nestl\u00e9 for healthier Kids beneficiary schools. The market clean-up exercises are one of the ways we have sustained our efforts of improving our environment over the past 5 years.”<\/p>\n

According to Dr Alexander Akhigbe, Founder\/CEO African Clean-Up Initiative, \u201cParticipating in clean-up exercises is a great way to get involved and make a difference in keeping our environment clean and healthy for everyone. At African Clean-Up Initiative, we are passionate about raising environmentally responsible citizens and communities, working for the highest good of the Planet. For this year\u2019s exercise, we ensured the proper management of over 6,660kg of solid waste and 79kg of recyclables collected across all the locations, so that they do not end up back in the environment. We are honored to be working with Nestl\u00e9 Nigeria as her implementing partners for this year\u2019s event\u201d.<\/p>\n

Comrade Aremu Komolafe, member of the Ojuwoye market committee in Mushin, Lagos State expressed his pleasure with volunteers from Nestl\u00e9 Nigeria who joined the traders and market leaders to clean up the popular market in South-West Nigeria.<\/p>\n

According to him, with the significant amount of waste generated daily due to large number of visitors and traders buying and selling, the burden of keeping the market clean is huge.<\/p>\n

To mitigate the situation, every Thursdays is designated by the Lagos State government for market clean-up and sensitization of shop and stall owners on the need for proper waste disposal.<\/p>\n

He said that the cleanup initiative by Nestl\u00e9 Nigeria will support these environmental sanitation efforts.
\nNestl\u00e9 Nigeria is a leading member of the Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA), an Industry collaboration aimed at driving post consumption waste management and recycling. Volunteers from the company also joined the FBRA led clean-up initiatives for the World Clean-Up Day.<\/p>\n

Through the Nestl\u00e9 Cares platform, employees have the opportunity to give back to the society, impacting individuals and families, communities and the environment, by volunteering their time, resources and talents.<\/p>\n

The company says it will continue to play her part to ensure a cleaner and healthier environment across her operating locations, helping to create a more sustainable world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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