An Assessment Of The Management Of Garbage Collection And Waste Disposal
Abstract
Poor waste operation has been a major problem to mortal actuality and it affects both pastoral and civic areas. colorful styles of waste disposal live and this study assessed the waste man– agement practices among residers of Owerri State, Imo state, Nigeria. It was a descriptive cross sectional study in which a aggregate of 282 residers of Owerri State were named by multi- stage slice fashion and studied using tone and canvasser administered questionnaires. The results showed that 90 of repliers were apprehensive of waste operation while97.5 had posi- tive station towards it. The major types of waste generated from homes were food remainders(97.1) and vegetable products(95.4). Also poor waste operation practices among residers include open jilting, rehearsed by66.3 of the residers and burning as rehearsed by62.4 of repliers. The commonest means of waste transport to final disposal point was by wheel barrow. Gender and educational status of repliers significantly told their knowledge, station and practice of waste operation( p<0.05). Good waste operation is vital to sustainable healthy living conditions in any terrain. The residers of Owerri need health education, regulation– ular force of garbage collection installations and designated final dump spots. These will encourage strict adherence to proper and applicable waste operation practices among them.
Chapter One
Preface
Background OF THE STUDY
Waste operation is the process of collecting, transporting, recycling or disposing, managing and covering of waste accoutrements . The term generally relates to accoutrements produced by mortal exertion and the process is generally accepted to reduce their effect on health, the terrain or aesthetics. The major focus of this exploration is on waste operation practices as obtains in the civic developing nations. Waste includes all particulars that people no longer have any use for, which they either intend to get relieve of or have formerly discarded and these include packing particulars theater waste, old maquillages holders, vegetables, essence etc. Poor waste operation has been a major problem to mortal health and actuality, affecting both pastoral and civic areas. A clean terrain influences good health and good health further affects the productivity of man. thus, it can be said that a good and clean terrain always affects the wealth and profitable status of the nation.
There are colorful styles of waste disposal including land stuffing which involves burying the waste in abandoned or unused chases, mining voids or burrow recesses and covering it with layers of soil; incineration involves domination of solid organic wastes to combustion at a veritably high temperature of about 10,000 so as to convert them into residue or gassy products; open jilting whereby jilting can be done on open land or ocean; composting this is an aerobic, natural process of declination of biodegradable organic matter; overeater feeding this involves feeding creatures like gormandizers with left over accoutrements of waste; mechanical destructor this involves the use of machines to destroy waste accoutrements . Recycling of waste which means taking waste accoutrements and transubstantiating them into raw products, results in saving natural coffers, saving energy, reducing disposal costs, reducing dangerous emigration to air and water, saving plutocrat and creating jobs.
mindfulness and knowledge of waste disposal is told by numerous factors as refocused out in a work done by Margaret Banga on ménage knowledge, stations and practices in solid waste isolation and recycling in civic Kampala. It indicated that the participation in solid waste separation conditioning depended on the position of mindfulness of recycling conditioning in the area, ménage income, educational position and gender. Ayodeji Ifegbesan studied the waste operation mindfulness knowledge and practices of secondary academy preceptors in Ogun state and it showed that preceptors were apprehensive and knowledgeable about waste operation indeed though they held negative waste operation practices. There seems to be perceptible mindfulness and know– ledge about waste disposal among people in Nigeria but utmost of them are only apprehensive of the crude and traditional styles and are unconscious of the ultramodern styles similar as incineration and recycling. The station of people towards waste operation can be affected by their position of knowledge and mindfulness of waste operation and it has been reported that homes with waste lockers engage more in proper way of storing waste than homes without waste lockers. A Nigerian study about station towards recycling and waste operation showed no significant effect of gender, employment and educational statuses, on amenability to reclaim.
mortal wastes are great contributors of environmental health hazards. Poor waste practices lead to impurity of comestible products thereby adding the burden of infection and conditions among the citizens. About1.3 billion tons of waste are generated encyclopedically,0.035 being generated by Nigeria. About85.8 of Nigerian waste is generated by homes. It’s estimated that an average Nigerian in the civic or pastoral areas generates about0.49 kg of solid waste per day with ménage and marketable centres contributing nearly 10 of total civic waste burden. Of this about two thirds of wastes are ditched indiscriminately on the thoroughfares and in the rainspouts therefore posing serious environmental health hazards.
likewise poor waste operation and disposal could lead to colorful conditions, infections and infestation and these include cover transmitted conditions like myiasis, diarrhea, typhoid, cholera; rodent transmitted complaint like Lassa fever pest, leptospirosis, murine typhus; mosquito borne conditions similar as malaria, unheroic fever, filariasis, and dengue hemorrhagic fever. Also feasts like methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and mercury vapor emitted from land filler point can constitute air pollutants and pollution. Another problem people face in proper waste operation and disposal is the absence of storehouse installations( waste lockers with tight fitted covers) in some houses which lead to littering of garbage around the house, worsened by the absence of drainage systems in similar houses. Indeed where the rainspouts are available they’re moreover constructed without a grade or not duly maintained as they’re congested or blocked with beach or other debris therefore precluding se- pay envelope drainage.
Against the background of these linked problems, this exploration further assessed waste operation practices, factors that told these practices and handed result to forestall help the complications which arose from poor waste operation. This exploration helped to ascertain the position of mindfulness, knowledge and station of people towards waste operation practices. It also helped in chancing out the prevailing styles of ménage waste collection and disposal system espoused by Owerri State Council. It’s hoped that the discovery– ings will enrich the force of knowledge necessary to inform applicable garbage operation and environ- internal policy for the country.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Waste operation is one of the big challenges facing most civic metropolises in the world. Grounded on exploration in Nigeria( Awortwi, 2003 & Obrih- Opareh, 2003) and Kenya 4( Karanja, 2005 & Mwangi, 2003) they pull together the substantiation with respect to Solid waste and civic operation in Africa. Besides private enterprises, nongovernmental associations( NGOs) may also play a part in conditioning like solid waste collection, sanitation and public mindfulness programs. Despite the enterprise to privatize solid waste operation, the problem of uncollected solid waste stays a trouble to the population and to the terrain in general. Imo state is among metropolises which facing the problem of solid waste operation which lead to view our megacity that are unorganized or unbridled. operation of solid waste each over the world is one of the first important precedences to the protection of community health as well as the terrain pollution. Solid waste comprises all the waste arising from mortal and beast conditioning that are typically solid and are discarded as useless or un wanted disposal( Tchobanoglous, etal. 1993). The vehicles which collecting the solid waste, rather of collecting the solid waste they just distributing the waste around the megacity when they’re on the way to dispose. This situation is too critical to vehicles of Imo state council which lead to distribute the outbreak conditions like cholera, tuberculosis and other affiliated conditions which affect the mortal coffers and environmental of the country. This study will assay the whole process of waste operation in Imo state.
exploration QUESTIONS
To reach the main ideal, there will be some question to be considered, they are
1. How is the current condition of ménage waste in Nigeria?
2. How is the waste operation policy in Nigeria?
3. What’s an effective means to reducing waste in Nigeria at the present stage? Is an profitable measure is the effective means to waste reduction About its theoretical ground.
exploration objects
1. To identify the current condition of ménage waste in Nigeria.
2. To identify the waste operation policy in Nigeria?
3. To know the effective means to reducing waste in Nigeria at the present stage
Significance Of The Study
Findings from this study will give information of analysis of problems facing in Imo state at Imo state m City Council on solid waste operation process. The study will also help the government to make programs and plan programmes for state solid waste operation proces; it’ll also help people to have a better sapience and understanding on the optimization of state solid waste operation process. likewise, the study will help to develop educational training programs to educate people about the significance of minimizing the cost of the state solid waste operation process. also, the study will act as the stepping gravestone to the minimization of state budget to solid waste operation system and will be useful to the private contractors on planning their operations for solid waste collection. Incipiently the study will help state itineraries to quantify the costs for state solid waste collections so as to conclude for optimal one.
compass OF THE STUDY
Coverage for this study involves ménage waste. But in fact there are other types of waste generated in Imo state. For illustration liquid and gassy waste is the part of waste produced in the megacity. This study thus provides only solid waste operation issues. Conclusions and suggestions may not profit any asked enhancement on other types of waste other than solid waste.
Limitation of study
Some residers refused to open their gates or attend to the canvassers maybe because of the precarious security situation in the state at that time. This reversal was still largely circumvented by selection of well– known aborigines as attendants for the canvassers .
Association OF STUDY
Thesis consists of five main chapters
Chapter one, preface This chapter explains about my background of the study, exploration questions and objects.
Chapter two, literature review This chapter explains about frame of the study, abstract review and empirical review.
Chapter three, shows the system of data collection and system of data analysis used in the exploration work.
Chapter four, data donation and analysis while chapter five gives out the necessary recommendations and conclusion.
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