**2. Challenges of recovery, recycling, collection, and disposal of solid wastes by private company**

#### **2.1 Description of the practice**

### *2.1.1 What the practice*

This practice is the result of recent challenges in the recovery, recycling, collection, and disposal of solid wastes by private individuals and businesses. In this instance, the activity is being carried out by a registered solid waste private company in Nigeria's historic city of Kano. It is a limited liability company undertaking collection and disposal of solid wastes on a commercial basis. Its services include on site separation of these waste before transporting the collected waste via a temporary site before final disposal, this company also undertakes in the sweeping of street/market, supply of refuse bins, collection and disposal of refuse. At present its services are available to individuals, private, and governmental organizations within the Kano Metropolitan area. The customers of this company are typically home or company owners who currently have a contract with the refuse collection and disposal company that specifies the anticipated volume of waste to be collected on a regular basis and on the basis of which the company informs the customer of the monthly fee. Currently, a client will pay N2, 000.00 a month on average to have a single 200-liter drum utilized as a waste

can and cleaned out once a week. The refuse is being disposed of through recovery, recycling, and leveling of what is left into a borrow pits in designated areas approved by the Kano State Urban Planning and Development Authority (KNUPDA). They operate a workshop for the maintenance of their machines and equipment. Kano is a developing city in Northern Nigeria that is expected to become economic vibrant from the activity of this stakeholder activity in the coming years, this of course is regarded as a recent advance for a developing nation in this twenty-first century era.
