The Role of Urban Planning in Sub‐Saharan Africa Urban Pollution Management

Awuah, Kwasi Gyau Baffour

doi:10.1002/9781119260493.ch29

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“…In Sub-Saharan Africa, waste collection systems such as communal container collection methods appear most dominant in many nations (Awuah, 2018;Lloyd, 2019;Lagerkvist, and Dahl en, 2019). In this kind of system, common containers (waste bins) are provided at dedicated points within neighborhoods for households to drop-off their solid waste.…”

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An assessment of house-hold solid waste management in a large Ghanaian district

Odonkor

Frimpong

Kurantin

2020

Heliyon

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The importance of waste management cannot be overemphasized. Improper waste management and disposal has rippling effect on the environment and human health. The aim of this study is to assess solid waste management among household in a large Ghanaians district. Multi-stage sampling technique comprising a cluster, simple random sampling, and systematic sampling techniques were used to select 600 respondents for the study. Data was analyzed using (SPSS) version 23.0. Results indicates that communal waste collection bins were far from households as confirmed by the majority (57.3%) of the respondents. The majority (56.5%) of the households walked a distance of 11-15 min before reaching the refuse site. The study found that the number of waste collection point in the community were few (1-3 collection bins) as confirmed by majority (92.2%) of the respondents. The distance from the center of the community to the final waste disposal site covered 1-2 h journey. There was a significant relationship between the number of waste disposal sites in the community and the average distance (in kilometers one way) from the city center to a disposing site. In conclusion, the study found that communal waste collection bins were far from households; number of waste collection point in the community were few. This indicates that the distance from the center of the community to the final waste disposal site covered 1-2 h journey. Based on the major findings of the study, we recommend that district assembly should provide waste collection bins to every household to ensure that residents do not dispose their housrhold waste indiscriminately. District by-laws should be strengthened to ensure proper household waste disposal at all districts in Ghana.

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An assessment of house-hold solid waste management in a large Ghanaian district

Odonkor

Frimpong

Kurantin

2020

Heliyon

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“…City authorities are unable to continue with UN's installed waste collection bins. Open burning is frequently used as a way of dealing with undisposed waste, especially in areas where waste collection is non-existent (Awuah, 2018).…”

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Effectiveness of Solid Waste Management in Machakos Town, Kenya

KANUKU,

NZYENGY’A,

VUNDI (Ph.D)

et al. 2020

strategicjournals.com

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Generation of solid waste in Africa has highly been contributed by high population growth and rapid urbanization of 4.5 per annum. The purpose of this study was to investigate effectiveness of newly installed waste collection bins in managing solid waste in Machakos town. Mixed method design was applied to incorporate both qualitative and quantitative methods to collect and analyze data. Open and closed ended questionnaires were used in data collection. 181 households were selected to form the study sample size and systematic random sampling method done in the estates through counting with skips after identifying the first household. Purposive sampling was done on the key informants. Key findings reported confirmed that perception had influence on households' usage of bins, as it was established that low awareness and knowledge influenced perception of bins and that low community participation in SWM triggered negative perception of bins. In addition, overflowing, accumulated and stinking uncollected waste bins created negative perception. It was also observed that households did not take waste to newly installed bins daily besides residents not dropping garbage to the bins twice in a week. Too, households did not dispose waste to the bins on alternate days but households took garbage to bins once a week. The study recommended that adequate and elaborate public sensitization campaigns on health risks of carelessly and illegally disposal of waste aimed at changing attitudes towards bins as well as enhancing community participation in SWM to influence positive perception of the use of bins. To increase the frequency households, dispose waste in the newly installed bins, an elaborate daily, weekly need should be designed and adequate bins proportionate to waste generated in the estates be positioned close to households sloping from homesteads for convenience dropping of waste.

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Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals: Considerations for Household and Indoor Air Pollution in Nigeria and Ghana

Addo

Olajide

2021

Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements

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The Role of Urban Planning in Sub‐Saharan Africa Urban Pollution Management

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

An assessment of house-hold solid waste management in a large Ghanaian district

An assessment of house-hold solid waste management in a large Ghanaian district

Effectiveness of Solid Waste Management in Machakos Town, Kenya

Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals: Considerations for Household and Indoor Air Pollution in Nigeria and Ghana

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