EVALUATING THE PROBLEMS OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OLUSOSUN DUMPING SITE AT OJOTA LAGOS)
Abstract
The study evaluates the problems of solid waste management in Nigeria. The study has the following objectives: to examine the consequences of poor solid waste management in Nigeria, a case study Olusosun dumping site at Ojota Lagos and to identify the strategies that has been adopted in solid waste management in Nigeria.
It also explained the mode of data collection and analysis; data for this study was collected from the respondents through the use of questionnaires. Questionnaires were shared to all 32 respondents of the organization, and field surveys through responses to questions in the questionnaire served as the main source of primary data for this study. The researcher discarded other alternatives such as the causal and explanatory research designs, because accurate findings and data analysis may not be achieved. Other information was collected from text books, journals and other secondary sources of data. Base on fining the study has the sample size of thirty-two (32).
Findings from the study revealed that wastes are not properly managed in Olusosun Dumping Site At Ojota Lagos, poor solid waste management leads to flooding, poor solid waste management does not make the environment unhealthy, strategies have been put in place for proper solid waste management in Olusosun Dumping Site At Ojota Lagos and solid waste management has not been effective in Nigeria.
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1.7 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
2.1.1 POPULATION, RESOURCE, POLLUTION (P.R.P) MODEL:
2.1.2 CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
2.2 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.2.2 SOURCES OF WASTE
2.2.3 WASTE MANAGEMENT METHODS
2.2.4 PROBLEMS OF WASTE DISPOSAL
2.2.5 PROSPECT OF OUR ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.0INTRODUCTION
3.1 STUDY AREA
3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN
3.3 POPULATION OF THE STUDY
3.4 POPULATION SIZE AND TECHNIQUE
3.5 DATA COLLECTION METHOD
3.6 DATA ANALYSIS
3.7 LIMITATION
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
4.1: GENDER DISTRIBUTION
4.2: OCCUPATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 SUMMARY OF FINDING
5.2 CONCLUSION
5.3 RECOMMENDATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX
QUESTION NAIRE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Solid wastes comprise all the wastes arising from human and animal activities that are normally solid, discarded as useless or unwanted.
The cities of third world countries are growing at very rapid rates compared to those in the developed nations. For instance, a UN-Habitat report observed that Africa is the fastest urbanizing continent having cities like Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa among others growing at fast rates that would make them triple their current sizes by the year 2050 (UN-Habitat, 2010). Such high rate of growth of cities has implications for the provision of urban infrastructural services to prevent the proliferation of urban slum. The increasing growth of cities, therefore, has implications for municipal waste management among other social services required in the urban communities. Data from many of the cities shows inadequacy in urban social services like shelter, provision of safe drinking water and efficient management of solid wastes. The cities are therefore littered with ‘mountains’ of rubbish in landfills and open (in most cases illegal) waste dumps which are covered with flies and thus serve as breeding grounds for rodents and mosquitoes which are carriers of diseases.
Also included are by- products of process lines or materials that may be required by law to be disposed of (Okecha 2000). Solid waste can be classified in a number of ways, on the basis of sources, environmental risks, utility and physical property. On the basis of source, solid wastes are again classified as: Municipal Solid Wastes, Industrial Solid Wastes and Agricultural Solid Wastes.
Nigeria’s major urban centres are today fighting to clear mounting heaps of solid waste from their environments. These strategic centre of beauty, peace and security are being overtaken by the messy nature of over flowing dumps unattended heaps of solid wastes emanating from household or domestic or kitchen sources, markets, shopping and business centres. City officials appear unable to combat unlawful and haphazard dumping of hazardous commercial and industrial wastes which are a clear violation of the clean Air and Health Edicts in our environmental sanitation laws, rules and regulation.
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