The Lagos city Five million challenge is one of the activities planned for the celebration of the Earth Festival Nigeria 2020, a week-long event put together by Humanity Nigeria that will hold from September 22-27, 2020.
Activities around this festival will be centered around achieving the goal of raising awareness about the need to protect the earth and save the environment from pollution and abuse.
In this maiden edition, the team has identified one major area to focus on, which is the pollution caused by plastic bottle wastes.
A whopping 91% of plastic does not get recycled according to www.nationalgeographic.com, since of the 8.3 billion metric tons produced, 6.3 billion metric tons become plastic waste, and report has it that 80 percent of plastic water bottles end up in landfills and it takes up to 1,000 years for every single bottle to decompose.
Also, 80 percent of the plastic water bottles we buy end up in landfills when they can be recycled.
So, the challenge is simply to put together a team of volunteers called the Earth Ambassadors, to rid the country of as much plastic bottle wastes as possible in a short period of time, while ensuring that they go for recycling.
1 Million Attempt (Stage 1)
A Team of Earth Ambassadors formed by the organizers - Humanity Nigeria, will be attempting the Guinness World Record for the highest number of plastic bottle wastes picked in 5 days for recycling.
The team, assisted by volunteers, will attempt to pick five million plastic bottle wastes in 5 days from Streets, gutters and canals.
This will be the biggest environmental clean-up from plastic wastes.
Lagos State, Nigeria, will be the official host of the world record attempt.
5 Million Attempt (Stage 2)
The team of Earth Ambassadors will be attempting the Guinness World Record for the highest number of plastic bottle wastes picked in 90 days from across a country for recycling.
This team, assisted by volunteers across 30 States in Nigeria, will attempt to pick ten million plastic bottle wastes under 90 days from Streets, gutters and canals across 30 States in Nigeria.
The world record attempt will run across 30 States in Nigeria and will involve over 10,000 Earth Volunteers across Nigeria.
10 Million Attempt (Stage 3)
The team will be attempting the Guinness World Record for the highest number of plastic bottle wastes picked in 120 days from across 15 countries, in five continents, for recycling.
The team, assisted by volunteers across the 15 countries scheduled for visit by the team, will attempt to pick 15 Million plastic bottle wastes under 120 days from Streets, gutters and canals across the 15 countries.
The World Record attempt will involve over 50,000 Earth volunteers across the world.
