Abstract
The Viability of Reuse as a Motivation for Sustainable Management of Faecal Waste in Ogun State, Nigeria
Highlights
In1 described the state of sanitation in Nigeria as the worst country in Africa and the third worst globally
For an economy described as the poverty capital of the world, where open defecation is still being practiced in 771 out of its 774 Local Government Areas, and with 25% of the national population still practicing open defecation, it is logical to explore the extent to which reuse can help disrupt the open defecation behaviour and indiscriminate disposal of faecal waste, as a win-win for environmental sanitation and economic opportunities
The non-recovery management means mostly adopted by households who have toilets due mainly to neatness, cheapness and fear of faecal waste being exploited for fetish diabolical purposes constrain the opportunity of recovery and eventual reuse
Summary
In1 described the state of sanitation in Nigeria as the worst country in Africa and the third worst globally This is so because more than 58 million of its urban dwellers still exist without access to a safe, private toilet. Nigeria loses over 2% of its Gross Domestic Product, (USD 3 billion) to open defecation and badly managed sanitation (Daily Trust[5]). This can be appreciated within the context of an earlier study by World Bank (6) that revealed that persons practicing open defecation expends practically 2.5 days a year finding a private location to defecate. The huge man-hour loss by over 25% of the population, when translated to monetary costs, the cost of treating sanitation based diseases, the cost of burying casualties of sanitation related diseases, and the mostly unquantifiable cost of stunted mental development of under-age survivors mostly account for this huge sanitation cost
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