Delta students advocate for proper waste management, cleaner environment

The Secondary School students in Delta state have challenged government at all levels to adopt a proper model of waste management with a view to keeping our environment clean.

Speaking in an interactive session organised by a Non-Governmental Organisation, Connected Development at the Government Model Secondary School, Asaba, on Friday, the Civil Club students advocated for environmental sustainability in the state.

In his remarks, the Programs Officer for Connected Development, Mr Abdulazees Hassaini, said the initiative was to build a behavior of environmental sustainability in the students.

He said, “We are here at the Government Model Secondary School here in Asaba to launch a recycling stand and donate the recycling stand to the school.

This is to enable the school to build that behavior of ensuring that recyclable materials do not find their way to the wrong location, but find designated places to drop them.

“This will enable and build a behavior of environmental sustainability, and also build a behavioral change of saying it’s everybody’s responsibility to ensure that the environment is clean and sustainable.

We also engaged them here in the school because we brought four schools together to speak on waste management, and you heard the solution they proffer to the government in addressing waste disposal.

We also donated farm implements to them. This is because they have gotten enough land and they are willing to go into farming, which will go a long way in helping us provide the necessary greens we need in our environment.

“This is the initiative we are building with the young people, and we are trying to get them as young as possible so that it can form a behavior for every upcoming youth, that environmental sustainability is everybody’s responsibility.”

Inaugurating the recycling stand and farm implements, the member representing Oshimili South at the Delta State House of Assembly, Bridget Anyafulu, commended the organization for bringing the initiative to the school, especially the approach to waste management.

“Let us go back to the school and build this initiative on them so that this generation will be better than ours. It’s good that we return to school and teach them. I have listened to your conversation; it means that you people have the initiative on how we can make a better society,” he admonished