INDISCRIMINATE DUMPING OF WASTE

REASONS FOR INDISCRIMINATE DUMPING OF WASTE

The following are the reasons for indiscriminate dumping of waste seen    around the environment:

1. Wastes disposal habit of the people.
2. Population
3. Lack of adequate equipment, plant and tools necessary for wastes collection and disposal.
4. Corruption
5. Overlap of the state enforcement and waste management agency.
6. Inappropriate reduce, reuse and recycle plan.

1. WASTE DISPOSAL HABIT OF THE PEOPLE

Ignorance coupled with poverty may be adduced to the habit of most  people in Zuba. It beat one imagination to see a man defecating in a broad day light or was a man park his car and throw dirt on the street, then one begins to wonder the habit of our people.

Nigerians are permanently accustomed to dirt. Evidence of this can be seen in everyday by way of indiscriminate dumping of wastes on the streets also the frequency of disposing it was not regular were the public wastes bins are found.

In another survey carried out, it was discovered that the volume of wastes  piled up for disposal will be influenced by nearness to disposal sites accessibility, transportation facilities, streets layout, composition of wastes methods and individual attitude.

Despite the facts that illegal communal waste dump indiscriminately located in public place have been officially cancelled yet people keep dumping waste around property, sometimes they use the property that is still under construction as a dump site. This indiscriminate dumping of waste tends to affect the value of property in the affected area.

2. INADIQUATE VEHICLES, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, TOOLS NECESSARY FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT.

Wastes disposed or deposited at designated point of collection has to be transported either to the transfer loading station where sorting is done or to the incinerator facility or sanitary landfill or the final disposal point. It was further noted that for effective and efficient collection system there must be enough and well maintained equipment such as trucks, tippers, pay loaders, bulldozers, road sweepers, compactors and others. All this are responsible for waste   management is not found in the area and this tends to affect the value of property that is faced with such problem.

3. CORRUPTION

Corruption is a canker worm that has eaten deep into every fabric of the Nigerian society. It has been reported in some instance that market woman have to bribe the waste management agency operative before wastes could be removed from market place.

4. POPULATION

Population growth has always affected waste generation, collection and invariably disposal due to population growth and higher standard of living.

Over population lead to slum in a giving area and this tend to be one of the reason for indiscriminate dumping of wastes their by devaluing the value of properties around.