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| Environmental Impacts Of Waste Generation And Management In University Of Ilesa Campus Area, Ilesa, Osun State Nigeria
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Akinloye Kehinde Francis (Ph.D.)
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Abstract:
This study investigated the nature of waste generation, assessed the waste management techniques and examined the impact of waste generation and management on the environment in university of Ilesa campus area. These with a view to providing baseline data for proper sanitation in the campus premises and the surrounding communities. Data for this study were collected from both primary and secondary sources. Primary data were obtained through the administration of structured questionnaire and also from field observation. The global positioning (GPS) receiver was used to capture the geographical co - ordinates of identified dumping sites across the study area and geographical information system software was also employed to classify land use types in the area. Major findings from the study showed that residential, offices and campus mini market land use area account for 92.7%, 58.0 % and 49 % respectively. The study further revealed that nature of wastes generated varied from one land use to the other. Pure water, nylon, paper and other nylon are clearly seen as the most common in office waste ranking, vegetative waste in residential sector while mini market waste is determined by the nature of product of each shop. The result of the assessment of collection, transportation and waste disposal showed that the existing techniques in the study area is poor 57% of the respondents confirmed that they were not satisfies with the method used. The study concluded that waste management techniques in the study area is very poor and has been subjected to the area to the risk of environmental hazards. Therefore, modern method of waste disposal techniques such as landfills, where waste will be buried at the out skirts of the study area should be embraced as it is the method practiced in some of the advanced countries of the world.
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