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APM Terminals to cut over 400,000 plastic wastes yearly

By Adaku Onyenucheya
25 November 2021   |   4:02 am
APM Terminals Apapa has said it is reducing plastic wastes at the Lagos ports by more than 400,000 bottles per year.

APM Terminals Apapa has said it is reducing plastic wastes at the Lagos ports by more than 400,000 bottles per year.

The company stated this while observing the 2021 yearly Go Green Initiative, which is an awareness building programme initiated by the Global Ports Group (GPG), an association of port and terminal operators, collaborating on key Environmental, Health, Safety and Security topics.

The terminal operator said this year, it is focused on reducing its plastic footprint by replacing single-use plastic bottled water with re-fill bottles and water dispensers, thereby eliminating a yearly waste of 408,800 single-use plastic bottles.

Commenting on the initiative, the Country Manager of APM Terminals Nigeria, Klaus Laursen, said: “We take our responsibility towards the environment very seriously; towards the community today, towards the future and our kids. Every year we give ourselves as employees an opportunity to contribute with our Go Green Campaign. This is our chance to give back.

“We will continue to do it in the future and we can use our LEAN waste methodology, our approach to always improve and reduce our impact on the environment. We owe that to ourselves, our kids, and to the future.”

Also speaking, the Procurement Manager of APM Terminals Apapa, Chinyere Adenaike, said the initiative has ensured that employees drink clean water without further harm to the environment.

“Everyday our employees consume 1,120 units of plastic bottled water. That is a massive churn out from a single community of workers. We may not be able to change how the outer world creates environmental pollution caused by plastic waste, but we definitely resolve not to contribute to that any longer,” she said.

Adenaike said to reduce the company’s plastic footprint, water dispensers have been placed all over the terminal to drastically cut down waste generated from single-use plastic water bottles.

She said the company also distributed 1,300 branded refill bottles to employees and contractors working at the terminal, enabling them to refill their bottles from the dispensers.

“The future of our unborn children depends on this and so that compels us not only to make it work but sustain it,” Adenaike added.

The representative of the Operation Labour Management unit, Gbenga Odeyemi, said the replacement of bottled water with dispenser water has helped in reducing plastic waste at the terminal.

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