THE IMPACTS OF THE INFORMAL SECTOR ON THE ECONOMICS OF THE MUNICIPAL WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM .......

The trash economy can be found in most large cities in developing countries, particularly in Lagos State, Nigeria, where the urban poor rely on waste-related informal economic activity to make a living. This study arose from the need to investigate the connections between waste management activities in the informal sector and their economic potential for providing income and job possibilities for the vulnerable urban poor in developing countries. MSW has been rediscovered from a resource management perspective, despite the traditional job of municipal waste management being to collect, treat, and dispose of garbage in an environmentally efficient manner. This makes it economically necessary for the informal sector to participate in municipal trash management in order to optimise its resource potential for both economic and environmental benefits. This study conducts a main field assessment of the informal sector scavenging activities at two dump sites in Lagos State, “Olushosun and Solouous,” and discovers that scavengers specialise in various sorts of waste materials that they retrieve and repurpose for sale. The findings also show that the informal sector offers options for informal employment and income or supplemental income for scavengers in the trash economy to support and sustain their families.

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