Illegal refuse-dumping menace in Lagos
Waste management is a core public service, and Lagos’s own numbers make the shortfall plain.
Lagos generates somewhere between 13,000 and 20,000 tonnes of waste daily, according to the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) itself.
The state’s waste authority has in recent years spent the overwhelming share of its budget on daily operations and only a sliver on the infrastructure that a megacity actually needs: transfer stations, material-recovery facilities, a modern truck fleet, and massive recycling plants.
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