Evans Nwafor, Chief Executive Officer, Evans Plastic Company, Minna, says that he has turns plastic waste to wealth by producing materials that are recycled into plastics from scrap.

Nwafor, who made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Minna, said that he abandoned his motor spare parts business to venture into the trade.

He said that the business was lucrative as it made one self-employed and an employer of labour.

“I was into selling of motor spare parts before now but I decided to go into this because I want to be a master of whatever I am doing.

“I was able to turn these scraps into wealth today because I sat down to think of what I can do and not what government and the people will do for me,’’ he said.

He said that the processes involved included purchasing the scraps which was done in kilogrammes, adding that a kilogramme costs N70.

The entrepreneur said that after the scraps were purchased, it would be cut into small sizes, washed and cleaned to remove dirt before separating them into injection and blowing material (types of plastic materials).

He said that the injection material was used to make household material such as plastic basins, buckets, hangers, plates and spoons among others.

While the blowing material was used to produce plastic jerry cans and plastic cans for packaging food and drinks.

Nwafor explained that after the process of separating injection and blowing material, the scraps would be inserted into a crushing machine and bagged in that order.

He said the operators, cleaners and other labourers in the factory were paid N5 per kilogramme based on the scrap material they produced for the recycling plants to make plastics.

The entrepreneur said that the bagged injection and blowing materials were sold between N100 and N140 per kilogramme to plastic producing companies.

He advised young graduates to look beyond white collar jobs and be creative to become self-employed and employers of labour.

NAN reports that Nwafor who established a plastic crushing factory in Minna, has been on the business for six years and has 15 employees.

NAN also reports that the 49-year-old graduate of geography is married with children and hails from Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra. (NAN)

– Aug. 27, 2018 @ 13:29 GMT |