Tham khảo tài liệu 'integrated waste management volume ii part 2', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Status of Waste Management 27 represent the benefit of the generator on the segregation exercise. Considering the results from the pilot study on source segregation two waste bin source segregation of biodegradable waste and other waste metal paper plastics etc will be much more effective at the start of the system. This will gradually be increased to three waste bins for biodegradable plastics and other waste with time. Week of households with 100 separation Food waste Plastic waste Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Table 5. Percentage Cooperation of households in each waste Bin in Benin metropolis solid waste management Land fill site Landfill is the common practice in the Benin and Lagos metropolis. Closed mining sites were converted to solid waste dumpsite without preparation for use as solid waste landfill site. There are three approved dump sites in the Lagos metropolis. These land fill sites have weight bridges at the gate house of the site. When vehicles carrying solid waste get to the gate their weights were taken at entry and exit. The difference between their weights on entry and exit were determined and recorded. Table 6 shows the records of weekly average solid waste delivered at the three approved waste dumpsite in the Lagos metropolis in 2006. The table showed that an average of 12 metric tons of solid waste was delivered at the three approved dumpsite per week. The 2006 national census puts the population of Mushin Local government area at 633 009 people. This population will therefore result to the generation of metric tons of solid waste per day and metric tons per week of domestic solid waste alone from the Mushin Local Government. This value is a far cry compare to the total average weekly solid waste commercial and domestic of about 1753 metric tons delivered at the approved dump site from Mushin LGA. This therefore explains why solid waste is .
