LAWMA records 76% increase in Olusosun waste disposal operations across Lagos state

The Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has said operations astatine the Olusosun Disposal Facility person accrued by much than 76 per cent pursuing the rehabilitation of its entree roadworthy and the opening of further discarded disposal platforms.

The authorization disclosed successful a connection that it evacuated implicit 18,660 metric tonnes of municipal coagulated discarded crossed its disposal facilities wrong 1 week.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of LAWMA, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, made this known during an operations reappraisal gathering held astatine the authority’s office successful Ijora-Olopa connected Wednesday.

Gbadegesin said LAWMA recorded 1,866 motortruck trips crossed its disposal facilities betwixt July 28 and August 3, 2026, describing the show arsenic grounds of the interaction of strategical concern successful discarded absorption infrastructure.

He explained that the Olusosun Disposal Facility unsocial recorded 1,012 motortruck trips during the period, compared to 574 motortruck trips successful the erstwhile 7 days, representing an summation of 438 motortruck trips, oregon much than 76 per cent successful operational capacity.

According to him, the...