Assessing Households` Willingness to Pay for Improved Municipal Waste Management in Three Selected Cities of Northeastern Nigeria
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Waste is a major economic drain, especially on city budgets. The inefficient use of scarce resources reflected in materials discarded and abandoned as waste represents a huge economic and environmental cost borne by society as a whole. Socially, waste has a disproportionate impact on the poor and marginalized in cities, towns and villages, as solid waste in most cities is disorganized, haphazard and under-resourced. In order to improve upon the present approach to waste management, this study aims to establish a clear rationale for making waste management a priority, by providing socially optimal amount for solid waste management and estimating the total economic benefit of improved solid waste in the selected states in Northeast Nigeria. The study used structurally design take-it-or-leave-it “TIOLI” questionnaire in eliciting households’ willingness to pay for improved waste management and apply the multi-stage probability sampling techniques to reach out to the randomly selected 422 target respondents from the three (3) state capitals and retrieved as follows; Adamawa state (Yola, 414 households), Bauchi state (Bauchi, 418 households) and Yobe state (Damaturu, 409 households) using face-to-face method of questionnaire administration. The data collected was analyzed using the aid of computer software package of SPSS version 22 whereby about 94 % of the respondents indicates “YES” they are willing to pay for improved door-to-door solid waste collection services for a cleaner neighborhood and healthy environment. Finally, the study result indicates that at all the three (3) selected northeast states state capitals of Adamawa, Bauchi and Yobe are willing to pay for improved door-to-door solid waste collection services. The mean willingness to pay is N1,556.75 and the total aggregate WTP for improved door-to-door solid waste collection and management is estimated as N2,160,659,975. And the result is aimed at providing policy guide for sustainable waste management in northeastern Nigeria by provide the households willing to pay for solid waste management and lastly, it will provide the best policy option for effective solid waste management that will be socially acceptable, economically viable and environmentally friendly.
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