NCF Celebrates WED with Arts Exhibition

In commemoration of the World Environment Day (WED) 2018, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) organised an inter-school arts exhibition and hosted key stakeholders in the plastic industries for a session of deliberation.

The event, which took place at Lekki Conservation Centre, Lagos recently, was sponsored by Exxon Mobil and supported by IHS Towers, First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Nigerian Bottling Company Plc and Nestle Water Nigeria, a ccording to a statement by NCF’s Director General, Dr. Muhtari Aminu-Kano. The activities were organised to enable students to showcase their creative abilities in turning plastics waste into arts and crafts while learning about ways the government and other stakeholders are helping to reduce its production and adverse effect on the people.

WED is an environmental awareness programme aimed at promoting environmental education, ingenuity, teamwork and general environmental friendliness among children and youths. The theme for this year Beat Plastic Pollution, urges all to adopt more than a single use of plastics.

NCF has over the years used WED to grow environmental literacy among the youths and the students. Avenue is usually created for the participants to individually or collectively develop solutions to current environmental challenges. The arts exhibition is an idea about up-cycling (converting waste plastics to arts and craft) rather than recycling. NCF encouraged stakeholders involved in the production and consumption of plastics, as well as the policy makers to jointly explore sustainable alternatives. Furthermore, to urgently reduce the production and excessive use of single-use plastics polluting our oceans, damaging marine life and threatening human health. Plastic pollution involves the accumulation of plastic products in the environment that adversely affects wildlife, wildlife habitat, and humans.