The Challenges of Waste Management and Recycling in Nigeria

ENVM011 – Research Thesis Proposal
For:
 MSc International Environmental Management
 MSc Wastes Management
 MSc Managing Waste and Environmental Resources
To help with completion you need to complete the following steps:
1. Arrange a meeting with the course leader or module leader to discuss potential topics and
supervisors (this can be done virtually, by email).
2. Meet with potential supervisor and discuss validity/practicality of project.
3. Complete the proposal document and submit via NILE/Turnitin.
You should use this template to ensure that you have covered all areas needed at this stage. You
will need to email a copy to your thesis supervisor, and to the module leader (Chris Holt) – this
needs to be completed and submitted as soon as possible.
Discuss the document with your supervisor before submitting.
Name:
Proposed thesis title: The challenges of waste management and recycling in Nigeria
Aim(s):
1. “To conduct a study on inadequate collection of waste, transport, treatment and disposal
process of Nigeria for identifying the challenges of waste management”.
2. “To review the challenges, barriers and opportunities related with improvement in waste
management process in Lagos LAWMA”.
Objectives
(First four objectives are of first aim and remaining ones of second aim)
1. To evaluate the waste management practices and relatable components in Nigeria
2. To identify the factors which arise challenges in waste management system in Nigeria
3. To determine role of informal sector in extracting value from waste and process of dumping it
4. To identify the urgency in Nigeria for moving towards more sustainable waste management
system
5. To obtain the key aspects of challenges and barriers associated with improvement in waste
management process
6. To review the types of recycling process mention in Lagos LAWMA project
7. To develop new waste management system for recycling solid waste and improvement in
landfills and dumping process
Sources of data
In order to make specific project on chosen topic i.e. waste management, both existing and primary
data will be collected from various resources. Government census report, statistical survey and

various articles that have been made till current period by other researchers, will be taken under
present project, to review current condition of Nigeria. Along with this, recent project done on
Lagos LAWMA will also be critically reviewed for same process. This would help in extracting key
information at wider level, to address mentioned objectives of present project. While for collecting
primary information questionnaire method will be chosen, where private sector participants and
regulators will invite to give reviews and their perception on challenges of waste management.
Rationale of research –
The reason behind conducting study on Nigeria only, is its current condition, where Waste
disposal is a serious problem of this country. Throughout overall review, a number of rotting heaps
of waste cause adverse impact on health and surrounding environment of markets, houses,
motorways, waterways, streets and land, which directly affect living condition. In addition to this,
mount of waste also growing at an astonishing rate in Nigeria, where current efforts for removing
them seems not to be enough to deal with this situation completely. Therefore, doing study on this
location, will help in evaluating ways through which solid waste can be recycled and remaining
ones, can be dumped properly.
https://www.legit.ng/1155390-problems-waste-management-nigeria.html
https://www.legit.ng/1155390-problems-waste-management-nigeria.html
Time Scale –
From the month of July 2020 to Sept. 2020