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



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Method of waste disposal across the 6 LCDAs


Table 10: Waste disposal methods
method of waste
disposal
Frequency
Percentage of n
drop off at specified area for clearing by agency
124 62.0% open dump
10 5.0% road median
20 10.0% Burning
14 7.0% Awaiting collection
26 13.0%
valid responses
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Source. Researcher’s field data, Lagos, March 2018








Figure 18. Column chart- methods of waste disposal
There was need to investigate the methods of waste disposal within the study area to correlate this with government’s claim of indiscriminate dumping into drains and street corners within the city. Table 10 indicates that 62% of the total number of respondents across the 6 LCDAs confirmed that they drop off their waste at a specified area within their neighbourhood to be picked up at a later date by Visionscape, the new waste collection company in Lagos. As at the time of gathering data, the new waste collection company was yet to adopt an effective method of
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39 residential waste collection across Lagos and this led to the development of mounting heaps of solid waste along road medians, street corners and edges of major roads as seen in the neighbourhoods visited (see figure 19 below.

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