Master’s thesis Environmental Management Assessment of the Source Separation of Household Solid Wastes in Nigeria

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Adedara, M.L, Adedara, M.L, Summary of Doctoral Research Structure - FINAL SUBMITTED- ADEDARA, Adedara, M.L

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of March 2017, the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has now shifted role from being a waste collector and regulatory agency to full regulator of the management of municipal solid waste, in conjunction with the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) of the Lagos State Government (LAWMA, 2017). Prior to the formulation of the new waste management policy in 2017, since late 1999, for about eighteen years the Lagos Sate government, during the administration of erstwhile Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, engaged the services of the private sector (PSP- private support participation) in the collection of residential (household) waste when the collection system became laborious for the waste management authority (This Day, 2017). The PSP operators, numbering up to 350 Premium Times, 2018) as at 2017 were assigned to various local government areas by LAWMA for the collection of household solid waste while LAWMA continued the collection of industrial, commercial and institutional waste (Akiyode & Sojinu, 2006). Waste collection from homes was done at least once in a week the operators drive their truck to the residential areas assigned to them and either pickup the waste bins in front of each building as it is in high income neighbourhoods or alert the residents of their presence by blaring their horns as it is in low income neighbourhoods. The number of houses assigned to each PSP operator is determined by
LAWMA, depending on the fleet size of the operator. Some operators were classified as mega
PSPs if they had up to 10 trucks in their fleet and could transport between 5 – 10 tons of solid waste in addition to high efficiency of operations. Bills for waste collected were prepared and forwarded to residents by LAWMA based on premises assessment criteria with respect to waste volume while the PSPs are then paid for their waste collection (Anestina, et al, 2014; Akiyode,
2006). It is pertinent to mention here that, although Lagos has two incineration plants at Oshodi-Apapa expressway and Ebute Metta, none of them is utilized for energy generation rather, the waste collected by the PSP operators were transported to landfill sites within the city where they are openly burnt from time to time to reduce volume. Unfortunately, this contributes to heavy air
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20 pollution and release of harmful gases that depletes the ozone layer (Kofoworola, 2007). A recent casein point in March 2018 (while the researcher was on fieldwork in Lagos) is the sudden fire outbreak at Olushosun landfill in Lagos caused by waste decomposition and the presence of hazardous materials resulting in methane gas explosion. The heavy fumes from the fire emanating from this site spanned over a large coverage area as the picture suggests (refer to
figure 3 above). The government of Lagos, inundated by incessant complaints about the ineffectiveness of the PSPs, amongst other things began a public sensitisation that it would terminate the contract of the PSPs to pave way for Visionscape under its new Cleaner Lagos Initiative. This was achieved in March 2017. Under the new arrangement, Visionscape, from the
UAE now collects MSW (household and commercial solid waste, handles landfill and transfer loading stations operations while LAWMA regulates these operations inline with international best practices (LAWMA, 2018).

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