Plastic waste value chain stakeholders were welcomed to Nigeria by the Basel Convention Coordinating Centre for the African Region (BCCC-) Africa). It was part of a workshop held on 10 August in Lagos.

“Promoting the environmentally sound management and control of the cross-border plastic waste trade in Nigeria”; this is the title of the project that has involved stakeholders from the Federal Ministry of the Environment, NESREA, the Nigerian Customs Service, national associations of plastic manufacturers and recyclers, the Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA), L&# waste management authorities 39; State and state environmental protection agencies.

Indeed, in Nigeria, plastic waste is dumped into sewers and waterways and onto coastal land. Funded by the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS) under its Small Grants Program (SGP) on plastic waste, this project aims to highlight the issue of plastic waste management.