Waste Management: A Tool for Environmental Protection in Nigeria

Ogbonna, D. N.; Ekweozor, I. K. E.; Igwe, F. U.

doi:10.1639/0044-7447(2002)031[0055:wmatfe]2.0.co;2

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“…Waste management like many other services in urban Nigeria is largely a public service characterized by poor financing, bureaucratic bottlenecks, and lack of commitment on the part of relevant establishments and officials. Slum and shanty neighbourhoods receive least attention and disposal services (Izeze, 1999;Ogu, 2000;Ogbonna et al, 2002). Between 1981 and 1985, the annual average financial resources deployed to sewerage, drainage, and refuses services stood at US$ 165 million.…”

Section: Current Waste Management Practices In Urban Nigeria: An Overmentioning

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“…The corresponding amount allocated by all local councils in the federation was only US$ 5 million (NEST, 1991;Ogu, 2000). Ogbonna et al (2002) contend that successive leaderships in Nigeria have attempted to tackle the urban waste question in the country largely through the task force approach, which has failed to deliver. As far back as the 80s, a major initiative, Environmental Sanitation, was introduced.…”

Section: Current Waste Management Practices In Urban Nigeria: An Overmentioning

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Indigenous Waste Management Practices among the Ngwa of Southeastern Nigeria: Some Lessons and Policy Implications

Izugbara

Umoh

2004

Environmentalist

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Despite large investments that have gone into meeting the challenges of effective waste management in urban Nigeria, there is little evidence that such efforts are having their expected impacts. Consequently, much attention has been drawn to the need to evolve more sustainable waste management strategies. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews among the Ngwa of southeastern Nigeria, some useful indigenous solid and liquid waste management techniques, in the search for solutions to the current waste management crisis in urban Nigeria, have become evident. These indigenous techniques and practices, which include ingenious and careful waste segregation and sorting, selective burning and burying, composting and conversion, etc., offer scope for meeting the challenges and addressing the limitations of current waste management in urban areas, especially if they are supported by appropriate inputs from modern technology.

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Section: Current Waste Management Practices In Urban Nigeria: An Overmentioning

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Section: Current Waste Management Practices In Urban Nigeria: An Overmentioning

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Indigenous Waste Management Practices among the Ngwa of Southeastern Nigeria: Some Lessons and Policy Implications

Izugbara

Umoh

2004

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“…A range of pollutants excreted with animal waste such as nutrients, nitrates, pathogens, natural and synthetic hormones, veterinary antimicrobials and heavy metals can find their way into the environment and pose direct or indirect human health hazards. Airborne pollutants and noxious gases produced from decomposed animal waste pile-ups increase greenhouse effects, pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular problems and early deaths (Ogbonna et al, 2002). Similarly, the impact of the discharge of untreated SH waste on surface and ground water in Nigeria have been well documented (Kwadzah & Iorhemen, 2015;Adebowale et al, 2016).…”

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“…(Sasakia et al, 2014), Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia (O'Handley & Olson, 2006). Apart from microbes reported, the presence constitutes a public nuisance and degenerates the aesthetic value of the environment (Ogbonna et al, 2002).…”

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Waste management and practices in a slaughterhouse in Abeokuta Nigeria: Case study, implications and alternative methods

Adebowale¹

2020

Sokoto J. Vet. Sc.

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The waste management operations at a main slaughterhouse (SH) in Ogun State was assessed. Waste generated included condemned organs, carcasses, ruminal contents, hair, hoofs, horns, faeces, blood and carcass trimmings which are poorly utilized. Solid wastes were observed as open dumps within SH facilities, while waste water was discharged in a nearby river, which also served butchers as main water source for meat washing. The unhygienic disposal of solid and liquid waste are potential threats to food safety, environment (air, surface and groundwater) and public health and some operable waste utilization strategies were described.

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“…This is because each step or link has an effect on inland water and hence human population making these sources of contamination very dangerous and harmful. Therefore, numerous health hazards associated with waste dump sites in major economic centres in Nigeria [27,91,92] can be said to be largely denominated by the resident and/or dominant waste components.…”

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Municipal Solid Waste Management and the Inland Water Bodies: Nigerian Perspectives

Sowunmi¹

2019

Municipal Solid Waste Management

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Municipal solid waste (MSW) composition, natural transformation, dynamics and impacts on inland water bodies in Nigeria were examined, using dumpsites and landfills as the common markers. Nigeria is estimated to have over 178.5 million people and kg/capita/day of 0.26-1.02 MSW, projected to increase with the expansion of the economy which is in need of better articulated MSW management strategies. The enormous natural inland surface and groundwater resources are daily challenged directly and indirectly, through decline in physical, chemical and biological quality. Solid waste disposal along the waterways and leachates from natural activities on materials at dumpsites and landfills was strongly identified and recognized as the source of pollutant inputs. The immediate and projected public health consequences in changes in inland waters were provided for resident aquatic organisms, some of which serves as food for resident human populations that are largely dependent on these water bodies for their daily water requirements.

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Waste Management: A Tool for Environmental Protection in Nigeria

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

Indigenous Waste Management Practices among the Ngwa of Southeastern Nigeria: Some Lessons and Policy Implications

Indigenous Waste Management Practices among the Ngwa of Southeastern Nigeria: Some Lessons and Policy Implications

Waste management and practices in a slaughterhouse in Abeokuta Nigeria: Case study, implications and alternative methods

Municipal Solid Waste Management and the Inland Water Bodies: Nigerian Perspectives

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