Solid Waste Segregation As A Strategy For Improved Waste Management

Solid Waste Segregation As A Strategy For Improved Waste Management

Chapter One

1.0 Preface

This chapter introduces the exploration study. It gives the background to the study, statement to the problem, exploration questions, compass and the significance of the study, description of terms and association of the study.

Background to the Study

Solid waste operation practices are essential element of environmental structure in mortal agreements. These practices encompass all conditioning accepted from the point of waste generation up to the final disposal. In utmost of African civic areas, solid waste operation is eventually a responsibility of External Councils while utmost cases of pastoral areas the wastes are handled and disposed at the ménage position( Frank, 2006). Solid Waste Management( SWM) is major environmental issues particularly in cosmopolises of numerous developing countries that has been suffering from environmental problems. Alamgir, Donald, Roehl and Ahsan( 2005) assert that civic population growth and profitable development should be considered crucial issues for External Solid Waste( MSW) generation. adding unplanned urbanization along with stoner’s mind set of ‘ out of sight out of mind ’ of wastes is one of the factors that make the product of solid waste to increase and though enhancing environmental pressures including unorganized waste disposal in numerous cosmopolises. In numerous cases, the, SWM is set up to be a major concern for the cosmopolises and municipalities of numerous countries and Nigeria isn’t an exception( ADB, 2012).

Waste isolation is an act of dividing waste into dry and wet. Dry waste includes hard accoutrements similar as wood and affiliated products, essence and glass and so on. Wet waste generally refers to liquid or organic waste generally generated by eating establishments and are heavy in weight due to moistness.

Waste generation is adding , while a sizeable portion of it’s disposed on inaptly located and operated dumpsites, performing in dire impacts on terrain and health. In addition, Mtey( 2005) and Vincent( 2000) report that between one- third and one- half of the solid waste generated within utmost metropolises in low and middle- income countries isn’t collected. They generally end up as illegal dumps on thoroughfares, open spaces and swamp; and the consequences to have noway been favorable to foliage and fauna. The Ministry of structure farther reports that solid waste operation needs to be corroborated through public policy and nonsupervisory frame to addresses environmental issues.

Consequently, Abuja city’s waste contains still 70 percent of organic, biodegradable waste and in pastoral areas the portion of waste reach further than 95 percent. Waste sorting, composting and recovering conditioning have been at the very morning and until 2015 and yet Nigeria has started to invest in environmentally safe tips . The operating dumpsite receives about 400 tons per day of solid, not sorted waste or 140,000 tons per time( MININFRA, 2013). Deep seated fires, methane explosions, landslides and leakages hanging gutters and groundwater are some of the common problems of similar introductory dumpsites as environmental pitfalls( Hogan, 2004). The current thinking is that poor waste operation reflects largely the failure of the being institutions to adequately address the waste problems( Yekeen, 2010). Any action to make capacity by civic institutions has to come seductive and conducive to environmental safeguard. Capacity needs to be counted and understood at all position, formal and informal, to prop capacity structure and also capacity assessment that’s concerned with relating being capacity and what fresh capacity is needed to get effects done( NUDB, 2008; Yekeen, 2010).

Statement of the Problem

The operation of solid waste stands as the most visible terrain problem facing the country Nigeria and is attaining a worrisome dimension with urbanization proliferation rate. Despite the rapid-fire growth of its population, areas similar as Abuja have noway had any clear Master plan tore-organize the planning and agreement since social period. This has put pressure on the structure which has redounded in numerous complex problems regarding agreement specially waste operation, where the solid waste problem is visible in utmost corridor of the area’s civic centers; on the roads, within the neighborhoods and around domestic structures and in different places of the civic areas. Failure to address waste operation related issues is anticipated to lead to multitudinous social and environmental impurities.

Purpose of the Study

The purpose of this study was to assess solid waste isolation as a strategy for bettered waste operation in Abuja.

Specific objects

To establish the status of the being solid waste collection, transportation and disposal practices in Abuja.

To examine magnitude solid waste operation problems in Abuja.

To examine the challenges of solid waste isolation in Abuja.

To design strategies to ameliorate solid waste isolation challenges in Abuja.

Exploration Questions

In order to achieve the below objects, the following exploration questions were used

What’s the status of the being solid waste collection, transportation and disposal practices in Abuja?

What are the magnitude solid waste operation problems in Abuja?

What are the challenges of solid waste isolation in Abuja?

What are design strategies to overcome solid waste isolation challenges in Abuja?

Significance Of The Study

To a large extent, solid waste operation effectiveness depends on the way different actors understand the peril and the good of maintaining terrain safe and their capacity but also the commitment of public and private sectors as well as the involvement and participation of the communities themselves in supporting the whole conception. It also depends on the useful information and assignments from current stylish practices in the provision of this important service. similar information and assignments can be attained only through exploration and studies; hence this exploration can help in the enhancement and performance of solid waste operation in the civic agreements and to identify openings for unborn strategic development in the field of solid waste operation. Particularly, this study is useful to the different stakeholders including itineraries, directors and private waste collectors, and in one way or the other contributes to unborn policy interventions in solid waste operation sector of the megacity of Abuja and Nigeria at large.

Compass Of The Study

The study was grounded on solid waste isolation as a system for perfecting waste operation in Abuja; looking at practices from the generation up to the disposal. It examined solid waste collection, transportation and final disposal by censuring magnitude problems of solid waste operation and also designs the strategies of how challenges could be overcome as the increase of solid waste product is considerable and can be one of environmental considerations.

Description Of Crucial Terms Wastes

This study uses the description by UNEP( 2002) which defines wastes as substances or objects, which are inclined or are intended to be disposed or are needed to be disposed by the vittles of public law. This description is also in consonance with what Mugambwa and Kizito( 2009); and Mukisa( 2009) use that wastes relate to particulars, accoutrements or substances which individualities consider useless at a given time and place. generally, the description of waste depends on types or orders and characteristics of waste under consideration. Some of the dominant types of waste include external waste, solid waste, dangerous waste and electronic waste.

Solid waste

For the purpose of this study, solid waste are appertained to as scrap; they’re organic and inorganic waste accoutrements that are typically solid produced by homes, marketable, institutional and artificial conditioning that have lost value in sight of the original druggies.

External solid waste

The study will use the description by Schubeler( 1996); Cointreau- Levine and Coad( 2000) in which external solid waste refers to refuse from homes,non-hazardous solid waste from artificial, marketable and institutional establishments, request waste, yard waste and road sweepings but banning excreta, except when it’s mixed with solid waste. It’s still necessary to note that in developing countries, it becomes delicate or indeed impracticable to put a line between excreta and solid waste. In numerous cases, solid waste mixes with excreta to the extent of being potentially dangerous to mortal health( Schubeler 1996).

Solid waste operation

This study defines solid waste operation as practices used for collection, transportation, processing, recycling or disposal of scrap( Mugambwa and Kizito, 2009). It ought to be appreciated that waste operation practices differ for developed and developing countries, for civic and pastoral areas, and for domestic and artificial directors. The volumes and types of solid waste in the different sources of waste justify the difference in the waste operation practices. It thus implies that the styles applicable in one setting may be different from another setting. Felix( 2010) points out some crucial rudiments of Solid Waste Management as waste generation, waste storehouse, collection and transportation.

Organization of the study

The study is divided into five chapters. Chapter one deals with the study’s preface and gives a background to the study. Chapter two reviews related and applicable literature. The chapter three gives the exploration methodology while the chapter four gives the study’s analysis and interpretation of data. The study concludes with chapter five which deals on the summary, conclusion and recommendation.