A constant question I have received as a youth activist falls along the lines of “What is all this craze about environmental conservation, Net-Zero goals, and the color green? It doesn’t affect my life so why should I care?”
But look at our streets, clogged with plastic bags and styrofoam remnants, breeding grounds for disease and a disgrace on our landscape. Our drainage systems choke, our waterways suffocate, and marine life ingests these toxins, ultimately poisoning the food chain that sustains us. The economic cost is no less staggering, with billions spent on managing plastic waste, money that could be invested in our people, development and infrastructure. The natural beauty of our nation’s biome has failed to be revived as we continuously pollute and disregard and destroy the very land that has protected us for centuries.
This reality that every Nigerian has witnessed began looking brighter and more hopeful as news of a Styrofoam ban circulated….
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