RESIDENCE ATTITUDES TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN AUCHI, EDO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study examined residence attitude to solid waste management in Auchi, Edo State Nigeria. Appropriate solid waste management has been the concern of all well meaning citizens of a country, this was because of the dangers posed by indiscriminate solid waste management in Nigeria. Both primary and secondary sources of data were used to gather information for the study. The study adopted the theory of Yaro Yamane to determine the sample size for the study, out of the entire population of 112,917 persons. The calculation was done at 10% ( 0.10) given the sample size to be 99.9 approximately 100, while  99 questionnaires was found suitable for analysis. Stratified sampling  techniques was adopted in administering questionnaires , since the study  area was already in strata, while simple random sampling techniques was employed in administering questionnaires on each strata. The study investigate the attitudes of residency of the study area towards solid waste management, the paper revealed that  the attitudes of the residency was very poor towards solid waste management, as the majority of the respondents admit they normally dumps  their waste in any available open spaces within the community, also, despite the fact they are  aware of the few private waste collector agencies, they refused to engaged them , due to their lack of knowledge about health effect of a dirty environment. The effects of poor waste management among others as revealed by the study are ;it can pose dangers to human health, air and water pollution, blockage of drainage system, bad eye sore, and so n. Based on the findings of the study, the following are the suggested recommendations ; Public enlightenment, as majority of the residency are ignorance, sensitization , involvements of more private waste managers, implementation of environmental protection law, sanction of any body found wanting.