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EFFECTIVE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AS A BOOSTER TO NIGERIA ECONOMY

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Abstract

This study was conducted to assess the effective solid waste management as a booster to Nigeria economy. The researcher using the questionnaire method collected first hand information from the management and staff of the company in question. Interviews were also granted to some selected management staff. Based on the findings. The researchers were able to draw reasonable conclusions from where they were able to give useful recommendations which they strongly imminent that if religiously followed will liberate government owned companied from imminent decay.

INTRODUCTION

• GENERAL BACKGROUND TO THE SUBJECT MATTER.

Nations are faced with different problems, from time to time.   Those problems require solutions comfortable to existence of nations economy.

Disposal of Waste Material in a major environmental problem especially in urban areas and it needs effective control.   As human populations increases, the Waste Materials accumulate in every city nationwide, coursing serious health and environmental problems with such problems in Enugu State and Nigeria in general, there is the tendency that there will be little or no positive change to the economy.   For instance, it will reduce the number of investors who should have come to established business or company within the country.   But effective control of disposal of solid Waste Material will increase nations economy.   A healthy environment will attract both local and foreign investors and by the time which industries have been established though these investors, many people will be employed and the numbers of unemployment will be reduce nations wide.     Though these investor, many people will be employed and the numbers of unemployment will be reduce nations wide.

Environmental pollution in urban centers due to solid waste is a matter of centers focus to the whole international community for developing countries like Nigeria, it is hardly recognized that sound environment management are form being a luxury is an important need for sustainable, development, good health, continued existence making and enjoying life, which will definitely be a boost to the economy.   The massive heaps of waste piled around market places on streets and residential areas attract the focus of many environmentalists because of the environmental hazard they cause.   The waste block access roads and obstruct traffic flow with attendant economic result.

In-effective waste control and management problem is reaching alarming proportions everywhere in Nigeria.   Nigeria produce large quantities of solid waste every year especially in the urban areas, where mounting of refuse are dumpsites at everywhere.     These wastes occupying open spaces in town should have been recycling and decompose for agricultural purposes which will yield a greater result to the economy.   Another bad or dangerous effect is that the child born in any Nigeria urban city is unknowingly condition to accepting as a way of it chin odor, mosquitoes bites Enugu State a love donates total garbage of 4, 800 cubic tones per day.

Investigation carried out by researchers within Enugu Metropolis revealed that major drainages are being used as refuse dumps.   The arbitrary disposing of solid Waste Materials on undeveloped plots of land and other open space is the order of the day.   The constant disposing of waste in the drainage would soon lead to drains to sit up with mud and rubbish which would unavoidably causes serious flood during raining season.

Inadequate solid waste management is a clear cause for the degradation of the environment in most cities in Nigeria.   And it is one of the major factors in the cause of parasitic diseases primarily caused by proliferation of insects and rodent vectors.   In view health hazards facing the public, the government and it’s agencies and also the economic implication of waste management that the focus of the researchers on the need for effective solid management in Enugu and Nigeria as a nation.   This is to complement the efforts of the Enugu State Environmental Protection Agencies (ENSEPA).

 

 

1.2  PROBLEM ASSOCIATED WITH SUBJECT MATTER

The major problems which have necessities this research are as follows:

1. The social economic implications managing from the lack of proper solid waste management by the existing agencies in our urban centers, and also the serious health and environmental hazards causes by uncontrolled dumping of refuse.
2. The problems of wasting energy for the production of secondary raw materials which can be gotten from municipal solid waste and subsequent conservation of foreign exchange which will promote economic growth. This project is therefore geared towards solving the above-mentioned problems by effective solid waste management.