An Assessment of Solid Waste Management Practices of Ablekuma-Afienya.
CHAPTER ONE
Objective of the study
The objectives of the study are;
- To examine magnitude solid waste management problems in Ablekuma-affienya
- To design strategies to overcome waste management challenges in Ablekuma-affienya
- To establish the status of the existing solid waste collection, transportation and disposal practices in Ableekuma-affienya.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Status of the existing solid waste collection
Every municipal, city or town authority in the world is responsible for setting up a waste processing and disposal facility, and for preparing an annual report regarding the collection and improvement there under. The central governments and districts administration have the overall responsibility for enforcement of the provisions of the rules and regulations within territorial limits of their jurisdiction. In most African cities and urban centers solid waste accumulation is estimated at 0.5 kg per capita/day with a density ranging from 205 to 370 kg m3 and in other cities where the population is 3.5 million people, research reveals that one million m3 of solid waste is generated per year (Palczynski, 2002; Hayal, Hailu and Aramde, 2014). In developing nations and African nations in particular, solid waste generation from the households, commercial centers, institutions, hotels and health facilities are the most sources of solid waste. Despite of limited infrastructures and man power capacity, attempts to collect and transport solid waste to disposal sites on a daily basis have been put in place but some cities have distant disposable sites that often hinder such attempts. Henry, Yongsheng, Jun (2006) note that different places of the cities have very often less frequent collection systems such as door door, curbside, set out, the block collection system and the sweeping of street. This is because the workers do not feel that they are being supervised neither do they have what to use during the process. As an existing solid waste collection, Hardoy, Mitlin and Satterthwaite (2001) remark that in collecting solid waste, the commonly used method is door – to – door collection as applied to various households in urban areas. They noted that in most cities and suburbs, each house owner puts wastes in baskets, sacks, plastic bags or other suitable materials at the door side so that the collectors pick up and bring wastes using the pushcarts to common temporary storage points for the trucks to pick up them to the disposal site. Some of the storage areas could be street sides and pedestrian walkways. According to Mohammed and Elsa (2003), the frequencies and regularity of solid waste collection are not always maintained due to the less number of laborers with their low payment. Besides, very few cities and towns have implemented this approach of waste management. The second approach is the curbside collection system that is commonly practiced where different sized containers are kept by the city administration or other delegated private companies, near the street corners and street crossings so that householders deposit their wastes on them using baskets, plastic bags, sacks, or other suitable materials on regular frequencies.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought to an assessment of solid waste management practices of Ablekuma-affienya
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
(i)Primary source and
(ii)Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
Population of the study
Population of a study is a group of persons or aggregate items, things the researcher is interested in getting information an assessment of solid waste management practices of Ablekuma-affienya. 200 staff of ministry of waste management and solid mineral were selected randomly by the researcher as the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION OF DATA
One hundred and sixty (160) questionnaires were distributed and one hundred and forty (133) were returned. This figure was the sample size. Out of the one hundred and thirty-three, only one hundred and twenty (120) were properly responded to. As a result, the researcher used one hundred and twenty for this study when more than 50% of the respondents agree to the questions, the answer is taken as valid for the purpose of this study. In analyzing the data, the approach that will be adopted is to find out the percentage and positive and negative answers to the question posed.
In table III above, 70.8% representing 85 respondents agreed that the strategies to overcome waste management challenge are the members of the public have been mobilized and educated in matters regarding waste management such as sorting / separation of waste according to their categories of organic and inorganic, efficient use of skips, waste recycling, home composting, waste minimization and adherence to environmental and waste management laws while 29.2% representing 35 respondents disagreed.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was an assessment of solid waste management practices ablekuma-affienya. In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of solid waste management practices Summary
This study was on an assessment of solid waste management practices ablekuma-affienya. Four objectives were raised which included: To examine magnitude solid waste management problems in Ablekuma-affienya, to design strategies to overcome waste management challenges in Ablekuma-affienya and to establish the status of the existing solid waste collection, transportation and disposal practices in Ableekuma-affienya. In line with these objectives, two research hypotheses were formulated and two null hypotheses were posited. The total population for the study is 200 staffs of ministry of waste management and mineral. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made supervisors, directors, senior staff and junior staff were used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
Conclusion
As expected, a number of household related factors affected the household solid waste management; family size, disposal method used, source reduction, reuse and recycling measures, frequency of waste collection, participation in training programs and the education level of the household head. The fact that the education level of a family head was negatively associated with the practices regarding household solid waste management indicates that improving general public awareness concerning the problem of solid waste management should be a high priority of the responsible authorities and the general public as well.
Recommendation
Encourage, cooperate and give financial assistance to the right government agencies, private organizations, institutions and individuals in the conduct and promotion of researches, experiments and other studies on solid waste management.
Should finance the local government i.e. the Municipal Council, to carry out residential solid waste management programs
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