Before now Nigerians bought water tied in ordinary bread nylon and hawked cold, plus returnable bottle, most Nigerians are survived by pure water when pipe borne water failed, as Nigeria transition into a technology driven economy gradually begins, around 1990 and 1994, vendors started moving from nylon bags to cheaper, sealed Polyurethane sachets,
it turning points was when Deagbo Industries Limited in Ibadan launched DIL Pure Water , the first structured commercial sachet water in Nigeria and founded by Sir Isaac Adeagbo Akinpadae.
In 2000- 2001, the National Agency For Drug Administration Control officially endorsed and started regulating it, Pure water became cheap, Portable alternative for most households in Nigeria who feels pipe borne water was unreliable, unsafe, and often unavailable.
The Business Part.
In early 2000s then, a bag of pure water is sold at N80 to N100 while per sachet is sold at N5, N10, N20, N30, and now N400 for a bag, N50 for a sachet, due to its high demand and consumption of 10 million sachets every day , pure water factory become a popular business for young people.
What is Pure Water Satchet?
Pure Water Satchet is low density polyethylene and its thermoplastic which means it soften when heated and harden when cooked can be combine with sand to produce some valuable products for human.
Environmental impact of discarded Satchet water.
For environmental experts, inappropriate disposal of sachet waters impacts on the environment negatively, blocked drainage systems, causes flooding sometime possibly create environment for mosquitoes to breed.
Sachet Water Conversion into Wealth
Every two seconds if you look at the environment, you see sachet water discarded around the environment is a problem, there is an indications that Satchet water is a resource if its harness properly. Mr Kelvin Maximus the coordinator of Health Environmental and You, HEY, an organization focused in advancing sustainable waste management, Circular Economy and Public Health Safety is currently running 100 million recovery Satchet water project , Mr Kelvin Maximus HEY Coordinator told Kristina report that the sachets water recovered have been used to produced throw pillows, dusters. “What we see as waste can be converted into valuable items, so sachet Water should not be disposed.
Also, for Planet 3R, an organization that convert textile and Plastic waste into eco friendly products, the Founder and Chief Executive Office, Mrs Adejoke Lasisi said it’s organization has converted sachet pure water to produced school bags, chopping bag, Conference bag.” We convert what people think that are so useless, so we started with pure water sachet to produce school bags, conference bags and before you know it, they started booking us to produce 1000 conference bags, chopping bags”.
For the students of JET and STAN club in Community Secondary School, Abuloma, Port Harcourt recycled sachet water into Eco Tile as it’s own effort of converting environmental problem into Wealth.
Economic and Environmental Benefits of sachet water conversion to Wealth.
Experts of the industry expressed optimism that converting sachet water to wealth is another dimension of generating employment and creating common opportunity for Nigerians, they explained that Waste recycling will reduce waste from the environment, equally create proper waste management awareness, especially the disposing of sachet water.
The role of government.
Stakeholders in the Industry urged the government to create an enabling environment for the innovation to strive , implement and enforce environmental policy, encourage experts and partner with Waste to Wealth professionals, they called on the government to invest in Waste management business, create public awareness to the general public on Waste recycling. Mrs Adejoke urged the government to reduce task, encourage individuals to use the items produced .
