Leading consumer packaged goods company and member of the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (CCHBC), Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Ltd., has demonstrated its long-standing dedication to recycling, environmental protection, and sustainable waste management through a PET-collection partnership with 1004 Estate. 

This landmark partnership is in alignment with the company's operating culture, which promotes the socioeconomic and environmental sustainability of the areas in which it operates. This collaboration also illustrates the undeniable dexterity of the Nigerian Bottling Company in identifying partners, stakeholders, and most relevantly, communities through which its sustainability commitments can be impactfully implemented. 

Speaking on the significance of this milestone partnership, Managing Director of NBC, Matthieu Seguin, highlighted the organisation’s unwavering commitment to ensuring the entrenchment of sustainable waste management practices in communities across the nation. 

The Nigerian Bottling Company deployed 18 custom-made packaging collection units within the estate and also facilitated an evacuation and value exchange unit which would be facilitated by Wastexchange Limited.

The partnership is expected to effectively manage the waste derived from the over 1077 apartments and housing over 5000 residents in the estate. This will in turn go a long way in reducing the plastic pollution menace in the Lagos metropolis.

In addition to the estate improving their environmental sustainability footprint, with consistent compliance by the residents, the recycling project is expected to reduce the Estate's waste evacuation bill in the future.

Furthermore, there will be an established refund arrangement to donate the financial equivalent of the recycled products to the estate for its communal development.

Speaking on the Project, the Executive Committee of 1004 Home Owners and Residents Association (HORA) expresed delight with the collaboration between the Estate and NBC together with its partner on PET recycling and the benefits it will bring to the Estate.

They noted  that 1004 Estate is the single largest estate in West Africa and it is therefore imperative to make the Estate more eco-friendly and sustainable. They reiterated that the collaboration affords the Estate an opportunity to work together with the Nigerian Bottling Company to minimize indiscriminate disposal of plastics, PETs etc and strive towards a cleaner and better community.