EXAMINATION OF THE PROBLEMS OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA
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EXAMINATION OF THE PROBLEMS OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
This study looked at the challenges with solid waste management in Nigeria. To achieve this goal, a stratified and systematic random selection technique was employed to select a sample from the country’s six geopolitical zones: North-West, North-East, North-Central, South-West, South-East, and South-South.
A state was picked from each zone, for a total of six states engaged in the study. According to the conclusions of this study, there were issues with the proper collection, storage, and disposal of solid waste in Nigeria.
Furthermore, budgets for the collection, storage, and disposal of solid waste in Nigeria were woefully inadequate. The findings also revealed deficiencies in the management of available monies in Nigerian entities responsible for solid waste collection, storage, and disposal. The survey also indicated that all of Nigeria’s agencies have grossly inadequate facilities and equipment for solid waste collection, storage, and disposal.
Although the agencies have professionals and skilled individuals, the results showed that their number was insufficient to meet the agencies’ needs in terms of collecting, storing, and disposing of solid waste generated in the states.
Based on the findings, it was recommended that governments strive to provide basic facilities and equipment, funds, and personnel, particularly in the lower cadre, as well as ensure an effective process of adequate utilisation of available funds and proper accountability at all levels in Nigeria’s solid waste collection, storage, and disposal.
Chapter one
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background for the Study
Urban solid waste management is one of the immediate and major environmental concerns facing governments in African cities (Baumgartner).
2003). The traditional municipal solid waste management approach, which focusses on collection and disposal, has failed to deliver efficient and effective services to all urban residents (Vancini, 2000). The urban ecology is steadily deteriorating due to massive amounts of waste that are not properly managed.
Large mounds of garbage and other debris can be found across Nigeria’s cities. According to Abugo (1999), 35% of Ibadan households, 33% in Kaduna, and 44% in Enugu lack access to waste collection and disposal services.
Odeyemi and Onibokun (1997) described Lagos as the world’s dirtiest capital. Solid garbage clogs most city streets, partially or completely. Similarly, open areas and markets are littered with solid garbage.
In most cases, drains are clogged or completely blocked, and many compounds are surrounded by solid garbage. However, this horrible state is not limited to Nigerian cities.
The worry about solid waste stems from an aesthetic desire to live in a clean environment, as well as the realisation that a dirty and cluttered environment is unhealthy and dangerous for the population.
This is evidenced by the World Health Organization‘s inclusion of environmental sanitation as a component of primary health care in the Alma Ata Declaration of September 1978. This was also explicitly stated in the Istanbul Declaration and Habitat Agenda for 1988.
According to the United Nations for Human Settlements (1998), sustainable human settlements are dependent on the construction of a better environment for human health and wellbeing, which will improve people’s living situations and lifestyles.
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