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<article-title>Solid Waste Management in Nigeria: Contributions to Sustainable Development: A Study of Eswama, Enugu State of Nigeria</article-title>
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<author>Josephine Ivoma Orga and Anulika Virginia Obi</author>

<aff>Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria</aff>

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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>The challenges with the disposal of waste have been there throughout the history of mankind. Nigeria is
the largest black nation in the world and generates 25 million tons of solid waste annually with a per
capita waste generation of 0.49kg/cap/dan. Nigeria&#x2019;s current solid waste management strategy focuses
on bulk collection and disposal. Non provision of steady vehicles for waste disposal by the state
government, lack of environmental education by the people in the state and increase in the number of
unauthorized dumpsites are the major problems the Agency is facing. There is also a challenge of the
difficulty in ascertaining the types of deposits/dumps of the disposal aspect of solid waste management
which when properly handled leads to Economic Development in Enugu State of Nigeria, hence this
study. The objective formulated was, to determine the main activities of solid waste management that
can contribute to Sustainable Development in Enugu State of Nigeria. The sample size was 480. A total
of 480 copies of questionnaire were administered but 450 copies were returned and analyzed. The
instruments used to gather information for this study include questionnaire and interview. The statistical
tool for testing the first hypothesis was Chi-squared (X<sup>2</sup>) test. This finding among others were made,
that though the main activities of solid waste management which can contribute to sustainable
development include land filling, compositing, incinerating, recycling, bio treating, transporting. The
researchers recommends that government should pay attention to the secured sanitary land filling
activity of Solid Waste Management among other activities to contribute to the Sustainable
Development in the State.</p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Waste, Management, Waste management, Sustainable development. </p>
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