France gives N500 million to five Nigerian varsities to fight plastic pollution

The French government has donated more than N500 million to five tertiary institutions in Nigeria to combat plastic pollution.

, the French Embassy launched a plastic waste management project worth €753,000 to help universities across Nigeria develop innovative, adaptive, and sustainable project ideas addressing plastic pollution.for fighting plastic pollution on campus.

He said the project to combat plastic pollution in Nigeria, tagged the French Embassy Fund , was part of the French government’s global effort to encourage proper plastic waste management. “We had a lot of good projects but these five have been selected because they are scientific and result-oriented. We want to face the huge question of plastic pollution here in Nigeria; the wish is to show with a few examples that it can work,” he said.

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