Waste Recycling and Reuse

Biography

Biography: Imumolen Christopher I

Abstract

Environmental quality refers to the standard of the local area and includes all/any issues that might affect the appearance of the area and/or how people perceive the area.An aspect of solid waste management that has become almost intractable to local authorities in Nigeria is street littering. Data was collected for a period of five days in Iyana-Iba, Lagos and were focused on several questions bordering on street littering (why they littered, what they littered, where they littered, etc.), and their personal information (age, sex, income status, educational levels etc.). Data collected during this research was analyzed using univariate and multivariate models. Results showed that the litter problem was quite intense in all the streets surveyed. The level of education, age and income of subjects were major determinants of their littering habit. This research shows that subjects littered the streets for several reasons (absence of bins, inefficiencies of local authorities, ignorance, weak legislation, anger, stress, etc.). It was also found that there is no relationship between education and littering attitude, hence; littering attitude of both highly educated participants and the lower cannot be marked out distinctively different; it thus mean that all were found to have negative attitudes.Thisresearch showed that population growth with uncontrolled and unplanned urban expansion of the area created the problems of waste management. The solid waste generation and roadside disposal system in this study area fall below acceptable standard. Non-biodegradable fractions of the municipal solid wastes are the major problems in solid waste management, because plastic, polythene and e-waste materials constitute physical nuisance to the environment. In addition most of these non-biodegradable materials contain high levels of chemical elements which some have been implicated in the etiology of many ailments peculiar to humans.