Abstract
Lagos is the commercial hub of Nigeria with almost the highest population in Nigeria. The municipal waste of Lagos is currently huge with existing health threats to residence around the landfills. Thirty-seven years (1980-2017) dataset for municipal waste in Lagos was projected to 2025 using computational analysis i.e., moving averages and excel forecast tool. It was discovered that the averages of all the forecast show that the municipal waste in Lagos will be fairly stable between 2020-2025 with an addition of 12 million tonnes by 2025. It is recommended that waste management authorities in Lagos should step-up with the establishment of municipal waste processing companies in all the five landfill sites because the land fill leachates is expected to pollute more ground water sources in Lagos metropolis.
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