Environment and Health

Packaging materials are creating environmental and health challenge in Nigeria. There are no trash cans on the streets of most cities in Nigeria and people throw cans and plastic bottles on the ground after drinking packaged water and beverages. Streets are littered with nylons, cellophanes, papers and styrofoam. Sometimes the garbage are collected and deposited on roads or drainage channels. Mosquitoes and harmful micro-organisms thrive and flourish in the blocked drainages and the putrefying piles of rubbish found in major cities as well as every nook and cranny of Nigeria.