THE EFFECT OF WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICE ON WASTE DISPOSAL IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF CUDA)

ABSTRACT

The research  providesa conceptual and theoretical study on the effect of waste management practice on waste disposal in Nigeria.it analyzes the concept of waste and waste management. It projects the challenges and profers strategies for effective waste management in Nigeria.with a case study of (CUDA.) 

INTRODUCTION

The American Public Liquid Association in 1975defined solid waste as unwanted and uselessmaterial with insufficient liquid content to be freeflowing, because of its sticky nature, solid wastehas the ability to accumulating and physicallyinsulting and degrading the environment if not wellmanaged. And is more conspicuous in the urbanthan rural areas and has been linked to suchproblems like demographic inconsistency and incontinuity in sanitation policy and data availability.The increase in population as a result of industrialrevolution in major towns and cities of the worldhave necessitated rapid growth or high rate ofurbanization and development for instance; Nigeriacities in recent time have witnessed rapidpopulation growth resulting from influx of migrantsfrom rural area to the cities. This brings about theconcentration of industrial, commercial,infrastructural,  administration and governmentactivities in urban centers. Thus, as the populationof cities grows, the rate of waste generation alsoincreases leading to increase burning of refuse (inthe developing  countries) and high rate of airpollution ,which increased concentration of greenhouse gases that  causes global warming andeventually Climate change.The volume of waste generated in any city is  oftenreflection of the intensity of human activities suchas population urbanization and social  development,resources exploitation and unchecked technologicaladvances. All these activities  generated one form ofwaste or the other. And the volume of wastegenerated has also increased  tremendously .theimplication of this is that we have more waste tocope with.