Household Waste Management Practices

Household Waste Management Practices

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Household Waste Management Practices

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PRELIMINARY PAGES

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction

  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Background Of The Problem
  • 1.3 Statement Of The Problem
  • 1.4 Aim
  • 1.5 Objective
  • 1.6 Justification
  • 1.7 Study Area

CHAPTER TWO: Literature Review

  • 2.0 Literature Review
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Studies Of Households Solid Waste Generator
  • 2.3 Waste Generation And Disposal
  • 2.4 Studies Of The Composition Household Solid Waste
  • 2.5 Studies Of Factors Affecting Solid Waste Management And Disposal

CHAPTER THREE

  • 3.0 Methodology
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The Reconnaissance Survey
  • 3.3 Selection Of House Hold And Respondents
  • 3.4 Design Of Questionnaire
  • 3.5 Statistical Analysis And Result
  • 3.6 Problem Of Data Collection

CHAPTER FOUR: Data Presentation And Analysis

  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Socio Demographic Profile Of Respondents
  • 4.3 Household Waste Generation And Management
  • 4.4 Awareness On Waste Management

CHAPTER FIVE: Summary, Conclusion And Recommendation

  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Summary And Major Finding
  • 5.3 Conclusion
  • 5.4 Recommendation

REFERENCES

APPENDIX

ABSTRACT

In Nigeria and particularly in Zaria city of Kaduna state, open dumping is still the most common household waste disposal method/practice. This type of practice is un hygienic and environmentally unfriendly. This research is aimed at effective Household Waste Management Practices in the study area. The research found that there are some other types of management or disposal method in practice in the study area, these include the use of packing and burning, dumping in pits outside the house and dumping in streets by residents, wheel barrows. Also included are scavengers, Ministry of Environment and private organizations that are involved in household waste.

Data for the study include the use of observations, questionnaire administration and oral interviews in data gathering and analysis. The research, recommends that the state government should provide household waste management equipment and vehicles, generators on loan for waste management authorities. Waste management such as the construction of sanitary land fills, purchase of incinerators for recycling plants, encourage waste to wealth practices as this would actually reduce the amount of waste that would be physically available in the study area.

Household Waste Management Practices

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 Introduction

… As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Research hypothesis and questions, Limitation of the study and Definition of technical terms.

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CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Literature Review

2.1 Introduction

This chapter focuses on the review of related literature. A literature review includes the current knowledge as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. It documents the state of the art with respect to the topic you are writing. It surveys the literature in the topic selected. In this research work the literature review includes the …

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