Author : Emenike, Augusta Ifeoma (PhD), Arc Nwagbara Augustine Okey (PhD), Emenike, Chinonyelum Nneoma

Solid Waste management is a serious challenge to urban centres and Enugu is not an exemption. Enugu city has been operating an open landfill site for disposing of its solid waste for a long time now. This is called a landfill where wastes are sorted and burnt intermittently. This creates a lot of environmental problems especially pollution (the air is mostly smoky, the land is degraded and the soil is not left out). The aim of this study is to highlight the evils of this type of disposal method and proffer alternative ways of disposing Solid Wastes. The study employed descriptive research method by observing the existing dumpsite and appraising existing literature on solid waste disposal and environmental challenges posed, also show cased a developed country’ model of disposing wastes. The study showed that open air dumpsite is very dangerous to other land uses, the ecosystem in general and the people within the vicinity in particular. It was then recommended that the city of Enugu should try to move away from the current way of disposing solid wastes and move towards more sustainable and greener methods.

Affiliation :

1,2 Department of Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria

3.Fame Konsult, Enugu, Nigeria

Keywords : Approach, challenge, disposal, pollution, recycle, solid wastes, urban.
Date : Friday ,30 ,June ,2017

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