An enviroment-centred organisation, FABE International Foundation, has launched a recycling project tagged ‘TidyNigeria’ across communities in Lagos State.

With funding from the Coca-Cola foundation, FABE Foundation on Thursday launched a recycling hub at Victoria Garden City, Lagos State.

In a statement by the organisation made available to newsmen late Thursday, the recycling hub at VGC will be replicated in four other communities in the state.

Being a coastal region, plastic pollution has been a major issue in the state and with the #TidyNigeriaRecyclingDrive, FABE hopes to encourage households and communities to subscribe to the intentional and proper sorting of waste.

Speaking on the initiative, President of The Coca-Cola Foundation, Saadia Madsbjerg, said, “This grant will support local communities in Lagos to better manage waste as we collectively journey towards a zero waste society, globally, one community at a time.”

According to the statement, some TidyNigeria hubs will be located inside estates, and communities and will operate as a community-led and community-inclusive hub selected to meet the organisation’s ambitious target recovery of 600 tons of post-consumer packaging.

This will encourage waste segregation and sorting from point of source and offer consumers the convenience and accessibility to recycle their household waste in a Tidy Nigeria Recycling Hub.

Everyone in the community can drop-off their PET bottles, cans, and cartons from different households, and communities, and be rewarded immediately through the #EcoShop.

This inclusion will allow Tidy Nigeria Recycling Hub users redeem cash or value to support their social needs.

FABE foundation aims to promote and create eco-conscious communities by engaging youths and everyone in the society to create sustainable eco-solutions to problems impacted by climate change affecting people’s health in the environment.

In July, the foundation organised a clean-up at the Okun-Ajah beach in the Lekki area of Lagos State.