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The Impact Of Recycling In Preserving The Environment
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1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Wastes pose serious environmental and health
problems, promote insect vectors like mosquitoes and flies (Cairncross
and Feachem 1993), rats and mice, cause fire hazards, flooding of
streams, development of aquatic weeds, odor problems, nuisance, and so
on. According to Pichtel (2005), the environmental impacts can be
clustered into six categories which include: global warming,
photochemical oxidant creation, abiotic resource depletion,
acidification, and eutrophication. Some of these problems are related to
their major constituents. It is on these premises that the researcher
intends to investigate the impact of recycling in preserving the
environments.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The main objective of the
study is to ascertain the impact of recycling in preserving the
environment; but for the purpose of the study, the researcher intends to
achieve the following objective:
i) To ascertain the impact of recycling in preserving the environment
ii) To ascertain the impact of solid waste management practice in Nigeria
iii) To evaluate the role of government in waste management in Nigeria
iv) To investigate the environmental effect of solid waste management in Nigeria.
v) To evaluate the relationship between solid waste management and environmental pollution.
1.4 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
For the successful completion of the study; the following research hypotheses were formulated;
H0: waste recycling does not have a significant impact in preserving the environment.
H1: waste recycling has a significant impact on environmental preservation.
H02: there is no relationship between solid waste management and environmental pollution
H2: there is a relationship between solid waste management and environmental pollution
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
It
is believed that at the completion of the study, the findings will be
of great importance to the federal ministry of environment, in
addressing the challenges of recycling as a means of managing solid
waste in the country, the findings will also be of great importance to
the environmental management agency as the findings will aid them in
developing a model to check and control solid waste management through
the recycling process. The study will also be of importance to
researchers who intend to embark on studies in similar area. Finally the
study will be of great importance to academia’s as the study will add
to the body of knowledge
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