THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICIES IN NIGERIA

THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICIES IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The study evaluates the need for effective waste management policies in Nigeria. The study has the following objectives: to examine the consequences of poor solid waste management in Nigeria 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 Akwa Ibom state, 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 Akwa Ibom state 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

QUESTIONNAIRE

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. 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 centres 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.

THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICIES IN NIGERIA