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When I learned that feces can be recycled or turned into electricity, I wished it were something I could do personally or something that’s already being done in Nigeria, because poor electricity is one of the major challenges we have been facing in the country.
The truth is, almost everything—I mean practically everything—we are using today and throwing away as waste is recyclable. The world would be a much better place if the means to recycle these items were made cheap and easily accessible to everyone, rather than waiting for such things to be exported to a faraway country or continent, only to be imported back and sold at high prices.
Yes, almost everything is recyclable. I have a man close to my house who buys trashed cartons at a very cheap rate from shop owners who trash cartons every day. He buys them cheaply and sells them to another man who buys at a higher rate.
Do I recycle items?
Majorly, no—because I do not have the means to do so. The only thing I’ve been involved with is repurposing, whereby I do not need to refine the items into something else but merely craft the object into something similar, such as repurposing a table into a cupboard or blending many pieces of soap into a bigger solid form using hot water.
Or is this called recycling? I doubt it.
Honestly, I wish I had the means to recycle things. I would not be buying a lot of the things I buy today.
Even if I do not recycle, I contribute greatly to recycling. How?
I am among those who do not just throw away items I am no longer using, such as plastics and many others. I look out for people who go around buying these items for recycling purposes and sell to them.
Recently, one of the plastic chairs in my workspace got broken at the leg. I had to keep it somewhere, waiting for buyers so I could sell it. When I finally saw one, I was shocked at the price I was told. In the end, I just gave the chair to the guy free of charge.
It was funny because the guy said he was going to buy the plastic chair for ₦200.
Yeah, I do dash out a lot too. The only issue is, even after giving out these items, we do not get to buy the recycled products cheaply—they come out very expensive.
Why are the recycled items very costly?
The reason is that the recycling facilities and equipment are not common. Most times, the machines are not even available in the country. The items are picked, packaged, and exported to other countries where they get recycled. They are then returned to the country, and the cost of importation and exportation is added to the price of the materials.
So whenever the prices of these items are called, I do not feel surprised—because it is the system we are in now.
Thanks for reading.
Unless, we start processing the wasted items in our country, the price will still high
Yeah, the price will continue to skyrocket and there's nothing we can do about it.
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Whether it is repurpose or recycle all na the same thing o.
It would help greatly if our government can provide those recycle machines to merchants here and cut off all the import and export.
Okay, they're all the same 😅
Yeah, if government get these times established, cost of living is definitely going to reduce. It's all these importation and exportation that are chopping us real good
Yeah