ENVIRONMENTAL ADULT EDUCATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE WASTE DISPOSAL AND PROVISIONS FOR MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (MSWM) FOR COMMUNITIES IN OMOKU TOWN OF OGBA/EGBEMA/NDONI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF RIVERS STATE

Authour: DR. I. I. OHIA
Abstract
The term environmental adult education refers in this paper to all types of learning related to everyday
life concerning the local environment. This knowledge fromthe environmentequips the adult learners and
others with skills, experiences, determination to face environmental challenges and overcome such a
challenge. One of the challenges that peopleface from the environment emanates from their homes and
this is about waste disposal and management. In many towns and cities including Omoku, fail to
maintain environmental wastedisposal as a result of this, everywhere become littered and continue to
breed cockroaches, rodents etc which are not good for human health. In line with this, this paper has
been used todiscuss fully environmental project that could be put in place to help reduce waste disposal
andensure proper environmental management that would help to care for bio-waste, dry waste ordry-
recyclables in Omoku from people’s household. This project is described as Municipal Solid Waste
Management (MSWM) in communities of Omoku; this to establish in conjunction between
Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area and Nigeria Agip Oil Company to reduce pollution in
Omoku. This project as important, if carried out, will help to reduce unemployment in Omoku as well as
reduce crime rate in communities of Omoku.
Keywords: bio-waste, biorecycling, dry recyclables, solid waste, , toxic-waste, waste treatment and
management
Introduction
Waste can be regarded as anything that is out of use. However, what is a waste to someone may serve
as a reserve for another person. Some of the waste materials could be recycled to produce another
thing. In this regard, waste can simply be described as materials which are thrown away or discarded
as worthless which has no value. As observed by Tammemagi (1999), we are all wasteful lot on planet
earth. For example, we use garbage and bury it; in turn the garbage gets rotten in the ground which
pollutes the environment. The process of living, eating, working and playing are all involved in
utilization of consumer products whose production and use generate waste. The implications of
Tammemagi’s view isthat for man to live in a habitable environment, he must find ways or means of
getting rid of allthose wastes they generate through adequate and save disposal process. According to
Control(1992), the concept of waste is subject to the value of judgment on privacy of owner or potential
consumer. To control, we have waste that are discarded materials which have no consumer value to the
person abandoning it.
Waste Disposal
Waste disposal sometimes, takes the shape of industrial toxic waste, paper waste, solid and gaseous
waste. However, scholars around the world have classified waste into differentcategories and types.
Forinstance,Can (1999) classified waste into fourtypessuch as:
a. Principal waste
b. Industrial waste
c. Hazardous waste
d. Radioactive waste-x-rays all things…

Dr. I.I. Ohia, Department of Adult and Non-Formal Education, Federal College of Education (T), P.M.B.11,Omoku,
Rivers State.