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Green Jobs: NESREA Issues Deadline For 25% Recycled PET Content

BY CHIKA OKEKE, Abuja
Prof Innocent Barikor

Committed to promoting green jobs, the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA, has issued a deadline for compliance to 25 percent recycled PET content for the plastics sector.

This followed a recent publication attributed to the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, expressing concerns over the National Environmental (Plastic Waste Control) Regulations, 2026.

With the deadline, the PET content requirement takes effect from 1 January 2028 and increases to 50 percent from 1 January 2030.

The timeline is expected to provide an opportunity for the manufacturers, recyclers, brand owners and Producer Responsibility Organisations, PRO, with sufficient time to plan investments, upgrade systems, build supply chains, develop local recycled-material capacity and engage regulators on practical implementation.

Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of NESREA, Prof. Innocent Barikor noted that the National Environmental (Plastic Waste Control) Regulations, 2026 are not anti-industry, adding that they are pro-environment, pro-resource efficiency, pro-recycling, pro-innovation and pro-sustainable industrial development.

He pointed out that Nigeria cannot continue with a plastics system that the products are placed on the market without adequate responsibility for their recovery, recycling or environmentally sound management.

Barikor recognised that successful implementation requires partnership with the industry, adding that the agency is open to receiving detailed technical submissions from MAN and other stakeholders on specific implementation challenges, sector-by-sector realities, investment needs, local recycling capacity, packaging alternatives and transition support mechanisms.

To this end, the agency invited MAN and all relevant stakeholders to engage constructively in the implementation process.

“The objective is not to weaken manufacturing, but to reposition Nigeria’s plastics sector for competitiveness in a world increasingly moving towards circularity, traceability, recycled content, producer responsibility and sustainable packaging.

“NESREA remains committed to transparent, evidence-based and consultative implementation of the regulations in a manner that protects the environment, supports industry transition, creates green jobs and advances Nigeria’s circular economy,” he added. 


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