Open AccessComputational forecast of municipal waste in Lagos: What may happen in 2025?
Author(s) -
Moses Emetere,
C.O. Iroham
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1036/1/012014
Subject(s) - leachate , residence , municipal solid waste , environmental science , waste management , population , environmental planning , water resource management , environmental engineering , environmental protection , geography , environmental health , engineering , medicine , demography , sociology
Lagos is the commercial hub of Nigeria with almost the highest population in Nigeria. The municipal waste of Lagos is currently huge with existing health threats to residence around the landfills. Thirty-seven years (1980-2017) dataset for municipal waste in Lagos was projected to 2025 using computational analysis i.e., moving averages and excel forecast tool. It was discovered that the averages of all the forecast show that the municipal waste in Lagos will be fairly stable between 2020-2025 with an addition of 12 million tonnes by 2025. It is recommended that waste management authorities in Lagos should step-up with the establishment of municipal waste processing companies in all the five landfill sites because the land fill leachates is expected to pollute more ground water sources in Lagos metropolis.