FBRA expresses commitment to plastic waste control regulation

<p>The Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA) has expressed commitment to the Federal Government on review of the draft plastic waste control regulation.</p>, <p>Ms Araghase Onaghise, Executive Secretary, FBRA, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of a Stakeholders Consultation on review of the Plastic Waste Control Regulation in Lagos.</p>, <p>NAN reports that FBRA was set up as a Producer Responsibility Organisation to manage the activities for post-consumer packaging on behalf of 31-member families and industry.</p>, <p>Onaghise said that the stakeholders consultation looked at the effect of plastics that were not managed properly in the environment.</p>, <p>According to her, the plastic waste control regulation is identifying some single use plastics that will be ban in July 2025.</p>, <p>“We are committed to working with the government to ensure that this regulation is very robust, is applicable in Nigeria, and is sustainable over time.</p>, <p>“So, it doesn’t have a negative impact on the industry and on the consumers so that we can all work together and ensure that we have a regulation that can be implementable,” she said.</p>, <p>Onaghise said that based on the review already done internally, FBRA was pushing for proper and adequate stakeholders engagement and alignment before a regulation could be put out or finalised.</p>, <p>“The reason for that is, if some single used plastics are banned, what are the alternatives?</p>, <p>“Yes, there may be ready alternatives in other climes but are they readily available and applicable in Nigeria?</p>, <p>“So we need to also make this applicable in Nigeria because Nigeria is a very different scenario.</p>, <p>“Do we have the adequate infrastructure to support this ban? Because we know that if you look at sustainability, it needs to have economic, environmental and social benefits,” she said.</p>, <p>The Executive Secretary said that implementation of the regulation needed to be done in a phased way.</p>