The Lagos State Government has rolled out a plan to create up to six thousand new jobs in the state.
The government’s plan includes waster conversion, as Lagos moves from the traditional waste management to recycling.
The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tunji Bello, made this known at a briefing to mark Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s second year in office.
Bello said lack of enough dumping sites in the state is part of the reasons for the waste conversion programme, as they are not enough space to set up new dumpsites.
He also said that the existing dumpsites had overreached their holding capacities, and that the new waste conversion programme would reduce the volume of waste being taken to the dumpsites.