Household Solid Waste Management Methods in Lafia, Nasarawa State Nigeria

The study discusses the socio-economic characteristics of household heads, types of waste generated and methods of disposal by household heads in Lafia. The study area was divided into three high, medium and low densities in terms of development. This was largely based on the data gathered through administration of questionnaire using systematic sampling methods. 270 copies of questionnaire were administered to household heads in the three areas selected, where high density area has 98; medium density area has 90 while low density area has 82 respectively. It was deduced that all the major types of municipal solid waste are generated in all the areas, and majority of household heads in the three areas use either plastic or metal buckets to collect and disposed their waste and also that the socio-economic characteristics varied in all the three areas at 5% probability level as 0.842<2.78<4.60. Furthermore, at 5% level of significance where 9.21>5.99, this shows that solid waste is more of a problem in the high density area than in the medium and low density areas.