Appropriate disposal of wastes and other associated materials remains vital to maintaining a high level of hygiene among the citizens, especially, during the ensuing festive season, the Waste Management Society of Nigeria (WAMASON) has said.

President of WAMASON, Chief Akpabio Ndarake Esien, AmbGW said this in a Christmas and New Year message he personally signed and made exclusively available to Kristina Reports on Thursday, December 22, 2022 in Bonny, Rivers State.

He stressed the need for citizens to pay close attention to healthy and proper waste disposal practices, before, during and after the Yuletide celebration, pointing out that such will propel minimal level of disease spread among the citizens or in the environment.

The celebrated environmentalist, technocrat, community leader, and holder of the United Nations Positive Livelihood Award Centre (UN-POLAC) Award of Justice of the Peace (JP) stated that celebrations held in littered environments are synonymous to inviting diseases causing viruses into such environments.

“Maintaining a clean environment while you celebrate is what is expected of every sane person, if you otherwise you are inviting diseases and viruses” cleanliness is next to Godliness, he added

Informing that WAMASON is a body responsible for the control and management of wastes in Nigeria, the Corporate Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Manager at the Nigeria LNG Plant Complex in Bonny, explained that the body cannot but avail the celebrating public advanced warnings on how to celebrate during the festive season in a responsibly healthy manner.

He emphasized that proper handling of wastes generated from eating, drinking, partying and other celebrative activities during Yuletide season would ensure everyone walks into 2023 in good health and also protects the environment from degradation, noting that “Mother Earth deserves our care and concern for our own good”.