Researchers in the Circular Plastic Economy has called for Collaborations, among stakeholders, incentives and enforcement of regulations to solve the challenge of plastic pollution around us.
They made this call public at the opening of the second stakeholders' engagement workshop on Circular Plastic Economic Innovation Hub in Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria. The project is being funded by the British Council in Partnership with Pan African University, Life and Earth Sciences Institute (PAULESI). Other stakeholders and collaborators are De Montfort University, Leicester, Co-creation Hub, Northumbria University, Newscastle, and Staffordshire University, UK.
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According to the principal investigator of the project, Professor Muyiwa Oyinlola of De Montfort University, Leicester, he said, "The project was to build capacity of Africans to solve Africa's challenges of plastic pollution". He however, emphasized the need for more government involvement and collaboration in terms of policies and regulations through incentives to consumers and innovators to solve the problem of plastic waste.