AN ASSESSMENT OF HOUSEHOLD SOLID WASTE RECOVERY AND UTILIZATION IN IBADAN: CASE STUDY OF IBADAN NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA

Abstract

This work aims to assess household solid wastes based on recovery and utilization within three different income groups of Ibadan North local government area and investigate the management system. Ibadan north local government was divided into three groups based on income generation. Household Solid Wastes generated on daily basis were sampled from each section. The average Household Solid Wastes (HSW) generation for the high income group, was 0.62kg/head/day, 0.34kg/head/day for medium income group and 0.24kg/head/day for low income group respectively. While the recoverable wastes were found to consist of 21.5, 38.8, 25.8, and 13.9% respectively for paper, plastic/rubber, nylon and metal/tin wastes. The utilization percentage were, 20% paper wastes, 5.8% plastic/rubber wastes, 1.7% nylon wastes and 6.7% metal/tin wastes among all three income groups. Extent of utilization to that of recoverable wastes was substantially low when compared with the total composition of waste in all the groups that cannot be reused and recovered. Hence, this indicates that a larger quantity of recoverable waste goes directly from household to landfill unrecovered.  As a result, efforts should be made to recover all the recyclable wastes which would be made easier through   sorting of wastes before disposal, as this will go a long way in reducing the quantity of wastes that goes into landfill.