Adaobi Rhema Oguejiofor
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Egbin Power, the largest power generating station in Nigeria, Mokhtar Bounour, has outlined the key deliberate actions that have been designed by the firm in order to further reduce environmental pollution in line with the global agenda for sustainability.
This comes as the Company on Monday joined others around the globe to celebrate the 2023 World Environment Day (WED), with the theme: “Solutions to Plastic Pollution.”
The Genco, while raising awareness about the hazardous impact of pollution on the environment, also called for joint global efforts among governments, businesses, and individuals towards building a more sustainable world.
Bounour, while speaking during the event, expressed that deliberate actions are being taken by people, organizations, and governments, who are forward-thinking, especially those who are concerned about the posterity and sustainability of people and the environment.
In his own words, “Egbin Power is a big stakeholder in the global conversation around the environment. In response to the global call for environmental sustainability, we display due diligence in air quality management, water oil separation, analysis of physiochemical parameters, and actions taken based on findings from the analysis.
“We also engage in emission monitoring, discharge of water temperature control before reinjection, as well as proper and detailed waste management practices, among many others.”
According to him, Egbin Power is building a culture to help team members take environmental due diligence as an individual responsibility in order to contribute limitlessly to the attainment of group environmental objectives.
Bounour also explained that “in furtherance to our sustainability drive, our kids at the Powerfield Group of Schools, Egbin, Ikorodu, have been fully trained to be able to imbibe recycling as a way of life. This makes them utilize cartons, plastic bottles, and other materials to build artworks and artifacts, which will be put on display as soon as the recycling museum is commissioned by Egbin Power. There are also plans in place to build a compost garden and recycle hub for plastics and other recyclables.”
According to the United Nations (UN) environment programme, the 2023 WED campaign, with the hashtag #BeatPlasticPollution, calls for global solutions to combat plastic pollution.
This year, the UN considers the rising impact of plastics, especially single-use plastics in the overall pollution of the environment, ranging from oceans through beaches and other water bodies to in land habitats. Plastic pollution is explained as hazards posed to the earth’s ecosystems by the accumulation of waste plastic products and particles.
Egbin Power says it has been at the forefront of promoting environmental sustainability and other zero-emission campaigns, with the aims to drastically reduce carbon emissions for environmental sustainability, healthier lifestyle, and for productivity.