Harboursandport.com: Lagos --- The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Agency, NESRA and the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS have supervised the
repatriation of four containers load of e-waste shipped into the country in the
last one year.
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| E-waste |
E-waste is an informal name for electronic products nearing the end of their "useful
life." Computers, televisions, VCRs, stereos, copiers, and fax machines
are common electronic products. Many of these products can be reused,
refurbished, or recycled.
Disclosing this in Lagos at a Customs press briefing involving
e-waste, an office of NESREA at the Tin-can Island
port, Mrs. Amarachi Ezinwanyi Udechukwu, said such dangerous items had
to be repatriated because of the harmful nature.
Udechukwu explained that while few imports of such items are
sent to recycling centers, the large quantities are sent back to their
countries of origin.
In her words, “No there are not going to be handed over to us,
just like the Controller said; the containers will be repatriated.
“Within this last one year here, this is the fourth one we are
having here for repatriation. There are others, we have had cases of used
leather sit batteries which are hazardous substance that is not also allowed
into the country.
“When we check the quantity if it is a few items, what we do is
that we seize them and send to recycling centers but when they are large, they
are also repatriated to their own country of origin.
“These one are 3x40 containers and there are from Malaysia.”
On whether NESRA would be responsible for the repatriation, she
said, “my agency will supervise the repatriation in collaboration with Customs;
actually it is a consignee, that is the importer that will bear the cost as
well as the shipping line because they are not supposed to bring in waste into
the county. “So, they will bear the cost of the repatriation back to the
country of origin,” she concluded.
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