LPS, Visionscape train pupils on waste recycling

In other to invest capital in the country and increase export through recycling, the Lagos Preparatory School (LPS), Ikoyi, in conjunction with Visionscape Sanitation Solutions has carried out an awareness and training of school pupils at LPS Ikoyi on waste management and recycling.
  
Head, LSP, Nicholas Barrett, at the school’s “Fun Day” forum to teach the students the harms of polluting the oceans with recyclable wastes, encourage the participating students to recycle wastes and raise funds to refurbish the Makoko Primary School.
  
Barrett noted that the parents, teachers and students chose the theme of the event, which was ‘Under the waters’, to tackle part of the global challenges at the moment that could be facing the children in the future which one of them is the pollution of the oceans.

“We teach them what could go wrong if wastes are thrown into the waters instead of taking them out to and make them useable product that can recycled and reused so it doesn’t become a menace in the water for our environment,” Rooyen said.
  
She continued: “We are moving some of the wastes out into the UK to recycle them into useful products like plastic bags and raw materials that can be useful to manufacturing companies. We are exporting and encouraging exports as well in order to bring finance back into Nigeria.
  
“We are investing in Nigeria and in the children by training and educating them. We are putting back into the society and making sure that we give them jobs, by teaching them how to recycle waste and giving them a cleaner Lagos.”
  
The Chairman, Parents Teachers Association (PTA), LPS, Alupeju Borne, reiterated that the students are doing a lot of recycling already within the school. 

She maintained that the initiative is to save Nigeria and the world at large of the impeding peril of having more plastics in the waters than fishes by 2050.
  
Alupeju said: “We are teaching the children to be responsible, to recycle their plastic and not to throw them in the waters or gutters and most importantly to look after the waters and save our oceans and look after our environments.”