Lagos: PSP operators to resume door-to-door residential waste collection

Following the previous fallout between PSP operators and the Lagos state government over the reshuffling of residential waste collection responsibilities under the Cleaner Lagos Initiative, a progressive consensus has now been reached between both parties.
This new development contains an agreement which will see PSP operators, now referred to as Waste Collection Operators under the scheme, return to their former role as residential waste collectors, while Visionscape oversees waste management infrastructural reforms in the state.
The agreement was announced on Thursday April 5, 2018 through the Cleaner Lagos Initiative twitter handle, after the state government extended a proverbial olive branch to the aggrieved operators in a bid to resolve the long drawn out issues, and prompt the WCOs to return to regular waste collection operations in the state.
Oladipo Egbeyemi, Chairman of the Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria, AWAM, expressed his gratitude to the state government for their unrelenting support and dedication in the face of the challenges faced by the PSP operators.
Egbeyemi further reassured Lagos state residents of an uplift in the city’s waste management system with the official resumption of door-to-door residential waste collection by the PSPs.
Visionscape Sanitation is charged with the construction of waste management infrastructure, and so far, the organization has refurbished three dilapidated Transfer Loading Stations previously managed by LAWMA in Simpson, Agege, and Oshodi.
Visionscape is also currently facilitating the completion of an Engineered Sanitary Landfill in Epe which at this time, serves as a safer alternative for the controversial dumpsite in Olusosun which caught fire a few weeks ago, and has since been shut down by the state government.
The Cleaner Lagos Initiative remains committed to working with all parties to achieve and maintain a clean environment for all.