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The Lagos state ministry of environment says it has reached an agreement with private sector participant (PSP) operators which will see the latter return as waste collectors.

According to a statement released on its Twitter page on Thursday,  Visionscape Sanitation will now oversee waste management infrastructural reforms.

“Following the previous fallout between PSP operators and the Lagos state government over the reshuffling of residential waste collection responsibilities under the Cleaner Lagos Initiative, a progressive consensus has now been reached between both parties,” the statement read.

“This new development contains an agreement which will see PSP operators, now referred to as waste collection operators under the scheme, return to their former role as residential waste collectors, while Visionscape oversees waste management infrastructural reforms in the state.”

Oladipo Egbeyemi, chairman of the Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria (AWAM), said Lagos state residents should expect an uplift in the city’s waste management system with the official resumption of door-to-door residential waste collection by the PSPs.

The ministry said Visionscape has refurbished three dilapidated transfer loading stations previously managed by LAWMA in Simpson, Agege, and Oshodi.

It also said the company is working on completing an engineered sanitary landfill in Epe, which will serve as an alternative to Olusosun dumpsite, which was shut down by the state government after a fire outbreak.