AN APPRAISAL OF PARTICIPATORY SOLID WASTE SORTING IN STAFF RESIDENTIAL QUARTERS OF AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, SAMARU CAMPUS, NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorMUHAMMED, Zainab Dalhatu
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-09T07:47:08Z
dc.date.available2016-08-09T07:47:08Z
dc.date.issued2015-12
dc.descriptionA DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE, STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN GEOGRAPHY, DEPARMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, FACULTY OF SCIENCE, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIAen_US
dc.description.abstractOne of the indicators of sustainable waste management is re-use and re-cycle, but which can be cumbersome except when waste is sorted. This study is an appraisal of Participatory solid waste sorting in staff residential quarters of Ahmadu Bello University, Samaru Campus, Nigeria. The research objectives are to; assess the level of awareness and readiness, determine the population that sort waste, analyze the quantity of sorted waste material, identify motivational and hindering factors to solid waste sorting, and examine socio economic, environmental and health implications of solid waste sorting. Systematic sampling method was used by drawing a list of four areas selected when arranged alphabetically and well structured questionnaire was used to get information from respondents. It was revealed that a total of 140.5kg of vegetable waste was sorted from the other waste materials. It was also discovered that there is no waste sorting facilities on the campus. In terms of waste generating, Area „A‟ had the highest (56kg) followed by Area „BZ‟ (41kg). Findings also show that 38% of the respondents from Area „A‟ and 29% from Area „BZ‟ claimed that inadequate space for keeping separated recyclable items, lack of economics/incentive and absence of modern sorting equipments hinder waste sorting. More over, 28% of respondents agreed that the hindering factor was lack of awareness from the University authority. The conclusion is that waste sorting is being practiced but at a small scale. The recommendations are that, the government, non-governmental organization and international institutions can play vital roles such as building networks among partners, providing technical and logistical advices know-how and capacity building opportunities and providing developmental assistance mechanism in cooperation with other programme and development agencies.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/8390
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectAPPRAISAL,en_US
dc.subjectPARTICIPATORY SOLID WASTE SORTING,en_US
dc.subjectSTAFF RESIDENTIAL QUARTERS,en_US
dc.subjectAHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,en_US
dc.subjectSAMARU CAMPUS,,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIA,en_US
dc.titleAN APPRAISAL OF PARTICIPATORY SOLID WASTE SORTING IN STAFF RESIDENTIAL QUARTERS OF AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, SAMARU CAMPUS, NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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