Maggi, one of the brands from the stable of Nestlé, good nutrition and lifestyle company, is leading crusade in tackling post-consumption waste management through various initiatives to ensure a cleaner environment.
It disclosed this during a recent clean up exercise it carried out in Agege Market, Lagos with a team of volunteers from Nestlé Nigeria and African Cleanup Initiative (ACI) .
Speaking on the initiative, Nwando Ajene, Category and Marketing Manager for Culinary, Nestlé Nigeria Plc, said, the company is leading efforts in tackling post consumption waste management through various initiatives including this clean-up exercise.
Nwando said:“In addition to removing waste from the environment, we are also raising awareness and promoting behavioural changes, which are both very critical to achieving a cleaner environment through proper waste management.We are happy to partner with the African Cleanup Initiative (ACI), and all the Nestlé volunteers who have come out today to show their commitment to rejuvenating our planet.”
Also speaking,Alexander Akhigbe, the founder of African Cleanup Initiative (ACI) noted that ACI is proud to clean up Oniwaya Market, Agege with Maggi.
Akhigbe added:“Volunteers from both teams demonstrated a high level of enthusiasm that aided the effective waste removal efforts. This partnership with MAGGI also serves as an added opportunity for ACI to ‘environgelise’ for environmental sanity and sustainability.
“We are also happy with the opportunity to donate cleaning tools like packers and brooms to the market team which was supported by Maggi.
“Nestlé is committed to packaging and delivering her products in ways that are safe to continuously protect the environment for future generations. The company has also announced ambitious sustainability goals to advance the health of our planet, including cutting greenhouse gas emissions to achieve net zero by 2050,” the ACI boss said.
The company recognises that multi-stakeholder action is required to achieve this objective and is therefore working with partners including other stakeholders in the Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA), Wecyclers and Chanja Datti and ACI on the management of post-consumer packaging plastic materials.
These collaborative efforts help to advance Nestlé’s vision that none of its packaging, including plastics, ends up in landfills or as litter, in oceans, lakes or rivers.
In 2021 alone, over 4,756.5TMT of plastic waste was removed from the environment through the collection initiatives and community projects of FBRA and Nestlé Nigeria partnerships with Wecyclers and Chanja Datti.
