Abstract
Poor waste management is increasingly becoming a major challenge for municipalities, globally. Unlike previous waste management studies in Nigeria, this study examines the implications of waste management to regional greenhouse gas emissions based on awareness levels and perception of urban inhabitants. Benin City was divided into four residential zones: core, intermediate, suburban, and planned estates. Blocking was utilized to collect data from a total of 2720 randomly selected inhabitants through a self-administered survey. Results reveals low awareness level in terms of indiscrimination dumping of waste, thereby promoting sustainable mitigation and adaptation measures region-wide. It is imperative to integrate various aspects of regional government services such as infrastructure, urban planning and development, socioeconomics, public health, and regulation enforcement. Waste management policy is strengthened via working groups, community, and regional authorities.
Highlights
The management of solid waste is an enormous challenge for municipalities
The collection and transport of municipal solid waste (MSW) requires the largest demand on municipal budgets but has been seen to have the greatest impact on urban living24. Oseghale[25] and Ezeudu and E zeudu[26] reported that in Nigeria 68% of MSW is indiscriminately dumped, 20.8% is disposed through inappropriate landfill sites, and 10.7% is burnt
This paper examines an in-depth look at the level of awareness and attitude of its inhabitants towards MSW disposal and possible contribution to regional greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Summary
The management of solid waste is an enormous challenge for municipalities. Previous studies indicate increase in population with relating concomitant urbanization dynamics and growth of conurbations will further exacerbate this challenge[1,2,3,4,5,6]. About 80% of solid waste in African countries is dumped indiscriminately in open spaces, streets, stormwater drains, rivers, and s treams[12], thereby, estimated to contribute to about 29% of the global GHG emissions and expected to increase to 64% by 2 0307. This is largely due to uncontrolled population growth and affluence, unsustainable development activities, and expansion of waste collection services without sufficient management strategies (i.e., changes from dumpsites to sanitary landfills with a lack of landfill gas collection). The research is in accordance with the local government, with the intention of enhancing MSW management programs for other Nigerian cities and beyond which face similar problems
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