Hazardous Waste Management and Challenges in Nigeria

Edward-Ekpu Douglas Uwagbale

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Hazardous Waste Management and Challenges in Nigeria

Edward-Ekpu Douglas Uwagbale

Published in World Journal of Public Health (Volume 1, Issue 1)

Received: 27 September 2016 Accepted: 8 October 2016 Published: 31 October 2016

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Abstract

Nigeria is a heavily polluted country. The problems and challenges of hazardous waste management in Nigeria is enormous. There are enough laws and policies on hazardous waste in Nigeria. There are institutions charged with implementation, execution and enforcing legislations and regulations of hazardous waste in Nigeria. These institutions are not adequately empowered to implement and execute policies, or enforce environmental laws. The simple execution of policies on ground and the enforcement of existing laws in the country can improve the environmental situation in Nigeria if environmental institutions are strengthened financially and politically.

Published in	World Journal of Public Health (Volume 1, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.wjph.20160101.11
Page(s)	1-5
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2016. Published by Science Publishing Group

Keywords

Hazardous Waste, Waste Management, Oil Spillage, Gas flaring, Ogoniland, Nigeria

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Department of Chemistry, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria

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