Planning Organic Fertilizer Industries for Municipal Solid Wastes Management

Field surveys using questionnaires and interviews on the magnitude of pollution from municipal solid wastes (MSW) and farmyard manure (FYM) were carried out in eleven major cities of Southwestern Nigeria. Samples of substrates were collected for physical analyses. An average of 0.58 kg per person-day of wastes was generated 80 % of which was biodegradable in the study area and 74 % of the MSW reach public dumps. Majority (78 %) of users were willing to separate biodegradable fraction of MSW at source. There were enough MSW and FYM to support an organic fertilizer industry in the study area.