Provisional Evaluation of Composting as Priority Option for Sustainable Waste Management in South-West Nigeria

Olukanni, D. O. and Aremu, D.O. (2017) Provisional Evaluation of Composting as Priority Option for Sustainable Waste Management in South-West Nigeria. Pollution, 3 (3). pp. 417-428. ISSN 2383-4501

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Abstract

The management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in Nigeria and most developing countries has remained a major public health challenge, thus creating the need for reliable and environmentally-acceptable alternatives. This study focuses on composting assessment as a viable recovery alternative for MSW in six States of Southwest Nigeria, namely: Ekiti, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, and Lagos. Extensive literature review has been carried out to understand the waste generation patterns in these states. Reported literature data has been assessed for sustainability of composting strategy in terms of organic waste streams, amenable of biotransformation as well as in terms of return through energy saving and material recovery. A life-cycle framework has been used to estimate GHG emissions, available nutrients, and potential compost production, instead of landfill in each region. Results show significant potential compost production of 895,659-, 255,267-, 153,423-, 117,468-, 113,094- and 112, 397-m3/yr for Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, and Ekiti, respectively. It has been deduced from the study that composting would be very beneficial to the economy as its product would boost agriculture production while reducing the budget spent on fertilizer annually.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	composting, life-cycle-framework, organic-waste, Southwest-Nigeria, sustainability.
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Civil Engineering and the Environment
Depositing User:	Mrs Hannah Akinwumi
Date Deposited:	06 Sep 2017 13:20
Last Modified:	06 Sep 2017 13:20
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/9178

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