**2.4 Poor waste management habit**

 There is no waste sorting culture in the region, which creates problem in the effective management of waste. This is because collected waste at different sites are all mixed up at home by residents and dumped by the road side for collectors to pick. There is no separation of waste into different types as practiced in developed societies (**Figure 3a, c**). Lack of waste separation creates problem for collectors who do not have the training or the equipment for separating the waste into its parts before final disposal in landfills [18]. Gross ignorance and helplessness in waste management had made a lot of people to become waste distributors, who pass on waste from one place to another in the name of management. They do this be pouring waste in restricted places under the cover of darkness or sometimes in the open without being confronted. Favorite areas of waste disposal in some cities in the

#### **Figure 3.**

*(a) Giant silo bin used to collect and convey building waste at a building renovation site. (b) Indoor waste disposal unit installed in a room to collect house hold waste, which will be channeled out into a silo bin placed outside for onward collection and disposal by waste agent at a building facility in Saint Louis USA. (c) Type I (rubbish, e.g., paper) waste collected and sorted for recycling (green silo).* 

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 Niger Delta are along roads. This is done to seek attention from the government or waste agency (**Figure 2a**) to come and evacuate pile of waste in their neighborhood. They also dump waste during heavy rainfall inside drains so that it will be flushed away by water into adjoining river. Wastes are also poured on farm and mangrove forest to conceal their action from the municipal authority. A favorite place where waste is usually dumped is at the foot of plantain and banana trees. This is because there is an erroneous belief that the waste act as manure for the growth of the plants. Dumping of waste in drainages blocks the free movement of waster leading to flooding problems. People also buy goods they do not need, which end up at the dump site. Poor income makes some people to buy sub-standard products that have low life span, resulting to wastage. These products become non-usable when used for a short time leading to their disposal in refuse dump.
