The Survey Of Waste-Bins And Collection Methodology In Households Of The Federal Capital City Fcc Abuja Nigeria

ABSTRACT This research is on the survey of waste-bins and collection methodology in households of the Federal Capital City FCC Abuja Nigeria. Solid waste management is a continually growing problem at global and local levels. Thousands of lives are lost every year to environmental-related diseases and cities have lost their aesthetic values to solid waste mismanagement therefore solid waste management can never be overemphasized.Any meaningful attempt at developing a strategy to manage urban waste in Nigeria must begin with a waste survey identifying the types of wastes the various land uses and the availability of waste-bins in the city to enable effective and efficient solid waste collection and management thus the need to survey assess and estimate the number of householdsproperties with the proper disposal bins in the city and to examine the collection and disposal methodology of wastes in the city identifying where there are gaps in order to proffer solution on what needs to be done to foster efficient and effective waste management.The project was carried out in five phases. Reconnaissance survey the first phase involved a pre-research investigation into the project and the project area. The second phase was carried out to acquire waste-bin attribute data from all the properties in the FCC Phase 1 Districts. Afterward the data processing phase where the acquired data both primary and secondary were processed in a GIS environment using the ArcGIS 10.1 software and the Microsoft Office Excel software.Acquired maps and plans were geo-referenced digitized and attribute data were inputted into the Database Management System DBMS in the acceptable formats. The data analyses phase involved querying the database using multi-criteria Structured Query Languages SQL to achieve end results such as percentage charts tables and maps. These results show the areas where gaps exist in the collection and disposal process the locations that require extra efforts for waste management due to high households or high activities areas with indiscriminate dumping amongst other issues. From the findings the efficiency of waste-bins was determined. The percentage of properties that have access to waste-bins in the city is 59 and as much as 41. do not have access. Also the average waste-bin per property for all the land-uses is 1.7 number of waste-bins.Assessing waste-bin availability in the city Wuse 1 possesses the highest percentage of 20.9 and CBD the least with 6.5 of all the waste-bins in the city. Furthermore the estimated household population of Wuse 1 is 8 persons per household. This is the highest in the city. Asokoro has the least of 6 persons while the CBD is zerodue to its non-residential nature. Also considering the proportion of persons per waste-bin Wuse 1 recorded the highest of 19.2 and Asokoro the lowest with 8.2 persons. The FCC has a proportion of 12.6 persons per waste-bin in general. The result also shows the efficiency of waste-bins in the city. In all the land-uses 29 of properties in the city have standard waste-bins 42 have substandard waste-bins while the remaining 29 do not have waste-bins. Furthermore to buttress the inefficiency in some areas the report shows areas that have quite alarming number of open dumps within the city with Wuse 1 District recording the highest figure of 42 of the total indiscriminate dumps. Lastly the distance and locations to the dumpsites servicing the city were also analyzed. The average distance from the FCC to the Gosa dumpsite is 17.29km and 16.23km to Ajata.However recommendations were made based on the findings of the project proposing a proper guide to solid waste management in the city.