Coca-Cola Foundation Partners with SWEEP to Boost Plastic Recycling

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): The Coca-Cola Foundation announced partnership with Statewide Waste and Environmental Education Foundation (SWEEP FOUNDATION) on a comprehensive waste management campaign in selected university campuses in Nigeria.

The Foundation will provide a grant in support of the SWEEP’s ‘Green Campus Project’. The collaboration will seek to promote proper waste management techniques. It seeks to improve the waste value chain of university campuses in the country.

The project was officially launched at the University of Ibadan on April 5^th. The event saw donation of plastic waste collection assets and infrastructure. The project is expected to boost efforts to environmental sustainability, while providing wealth creation opportunities for Nigerian youth.

The selected higher educational institutions in the country will be part of the pilot phase of the project. Around 250 students in each campus will be provided training. In addition to providing awareness and education on waste management and environmental protection, it will focus on setting up community drop-off points and recycling hubs within campuses. The project will ensure deployment of key infrastructures and mobile collection receptacles across participating institutions.

The primary target of the pilot program will be to boost collection of discarded PET bottles, which have been cited as one of the major plastic pollutants.