SOLID WASTES DISPOSAL AND ITS HEALTH IMPLICATION IN AN ENVIRONMENT
Introduction
The disposal and management of municipal solid waste is a globally challenging issue especially in developing countries due to its adverse environmental effects.
Mankind depends on the environment to sustain their lives and that solid waste is one of the three major environmental problems, other major environmental issues include flooding and desertification in Nigeria and many other developing and even developed countries are threatened by this. In the current world economic paradigms, sustainable socio-economic development of every community depends much on the sustainability of the environment. The contamination of the environment by anthropogenic (influence of human being on nature) practices is globally known to impacts negatively on the environment
