SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION PATTERNS, NON-BIODEGRADABLE WASTES REDUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA
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2024-08-16
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Poor consumption patterns aided by the need for
packaging and storage of goods have contributed to the burden of
non-biodegradable wastes. These patterns stand as major sources
of toxic pollutants in the environment making environmental
preservation highly compromised. In particular, inadequate
management of non-biodegradable waste has been an overriding
environmental problem in Kwara State, this is growing into an
intractable environmental issue, therefore, there is necessity for an
effective mitigation strategy. In view of this need, this study aims
to promote sustainable consumption patterns to reduce nonbiodegradable wastes and achieve environmental preservation in
Kwara State. The objectives of the study were to: (i) assess the level
of consumers’ willingness to adopt sustainable consumption
patterns that support environmental protection; (ii) enumerate
key strategies for reducing non-biodegradable wastes so as to
promote environmental protection; (iii) examine consumers’
perception on the best practice in non-biodegradable wastes
management; and (iv) investigate the dominant environmental
threat to environmental protection framework in Kwara State.
This descriptive study adopted a quantitative research design,
with a purposive sampling of a hundred and twenty respondents;
the descriptive analysis was based on a hundred and nine
questionnaires that were retrieved. The findings of the study
showed that: (i) the level of consumers’ willingness to employ
sustainable consumption patterns that support environmental
protection was 89%; (ii) the key strategies for reducing nonbiodegradable wastes in order to promote environmental
protection included ‘willingness to turn in used non-biodegradable
materials for recycling’ (89%), ‘support for agencies that extract
non-biodegradable materials from the society’ (83.5%), ‘ban on
use of non-biodegradable materials if alternatives are available’
(71.6%), and ‘choice of re-usable bags over single-use nylon bags’
(69.1%); (iii) the consumers’ perception on the best practice in
non-biodegradable wastes management was ‘recycling’ (80.7%);
and (iv) the dominant environmental threat to environmental
protection framework in Kwara State was ‘solid waste pollution’
(68.8%). The study concluded that consumer receptivity to
sustainable consumption patterns was high; extraction and ban
were among key strategies for non-biodegradable wastes
reduction; recycling was considered as the best practice in nonbiodegradable wastes management; and solid waste pollution
stood as the leading environmental hazard in Kwara State. The
study recommends that government functionaries, nongovernmental agencies, and relevant environmental protection
stakeholders should provide current knowledge on sustainable
consumption practices; ensure non-biodegradable wastes
reduction framework is all-inclusive; make recycling process of
non-biodegradable wastes operative; and completely eradicate
solid waste pollution in Kwara State.
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Precious, O. G., *Tawakalitu, B. Y*., Chinyere, L. O., Oluwaseun, J. I., Adewale, M. O., & Priscilla, O. A. (2024)SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION PATTERNS, NON-BIODEGRADABLE WASTES REDUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA ; International Conference on Science, Engineering and Business for Driving Sustainable Development Goals (SEB4SDG) | 979-8-3503-5815-5/24/$31.00 ©2024 IEEE | DOI: 10.1109/SEB4SDG60871.2024.10629769