APPRAISAL OF THE LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT

APPRAISAL OF THE LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT

Introduction

At the heart of environmental concerns for every state and nation is the problem of waste and its management. Disposal and management of waste be hazardous or non-hazardous presents serious environmental problem. The problem is due to the lack of adequate resources namely: legal, financial, technology and manpower.

An effective waste management as a means of protecting environment under environmental law needs adequate legal regime, technology and enough manpower with necessary managerial skills and training to properly handle waste, hazardous and non-hazardous in an environmentally safe and sound manner.

The modern industry has come along with it the problem of hazardous waste. Having to use raw materials to produce goods, modern industries end up with hazardous waste which could either be toxic or radioactive. Communities in urban areas, settlements in rural areas and villages, markets, commercial places, schools, houses and institutions have now become a source of waste and there is always the problem of how to manage and dispose of them without2 either harming the human environment or the environment of animals and plants.

TOPIC: APPRAISAL OF THE LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT

Chapters: 1 - 5
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Number of Pages: 78

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