WDU scientists canvas for plastic free environment

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(Nigeria) Scientists at the Western Delta University, WDU, Oghara, Delta State, have canvassed for a plastic free society to reduce pollution and environmentally inflicted human and animal ailments that are capable of causing the death of fish, animals and other agricultural produce, and which can also lead to human deaths, across the globe.
They gave the charge during this year’s World Environmental Day anniversary, observed by the Environmental Management and Toxicology Department of the institution, in conjunction with an Green-sphere Initiative for Good Governance and Environmental Advocacy,  where several scientists of world repute deliberated on the dangers of littering the environment with plastic materials, noting  “All plastic materials, whether deliberately or inadvertently consumed, can be deadly to animals and man, because of their chemical contents.”
WDU Head of Department of Environmental Management and Toxicology, Dr  Celestina Ihayere, said, “All known research had proven that plastic materials are very harmful to human and animal health. It is therefore of utmost necessity that when humans come contact with plastic materials, particularly when they are used to package food items, they should be properly disposed of and never consumed along such food items.”
Earlier, Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Otete Okobiah,  warned of the fatal danger in the consumption of animals that died from the obvious consumption of plastic materials, saying, “All animals that had consumed plastic materials and consequently died, should not be eaten but must be buried to avoid any contact with the ailment which killed such animals. The same thing applies to life animals that have consumed plastic materials. When they are killed and consumed, such persons risk the same danger. Consuming any of such animals can be deadly.”

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