A RECYCLABLE WASTE PICKUP SCHEDULING SYSTEM IN NIGERIA

EMEAGWARA, COLLINS OBINNA (2026) A RECYCLABLE WASTE PICKUP SCHEDULING SYSTEM IN NIGERIA. Other thesis, Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu Nigeria.

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Abstract

Solid waste management remains one of the most pressing environmental and public health challenges facing Nigeria today. The country generates over 32 million tonnes of solid waste annually, yet less than 40 percent of this volume is formally collected in urban areas, and the national recycling rate sits below 10 percent a figure that lags far behind countries such as Germany and Sweden, where digitally coordinated waste systems have pushed recycling rates above 60 percent. A substantial share of Nigeria's uncollected waste consists of materials that are inherently recoverable: plastics, paper, glass, metals, and electronic waste. These materials routinely end up in landfills, open dumpsites, or are burned in residential areas, not because recycling infrastructure does not exist, but because there is no reliable digital mechanism connecting the people who generate this waste with the companies and individuals willing to collect it. Communication between households, businesses, and waste collectors is almost entirely informal, typically conducted through phone calls, personal relationships, or word of mouth. Waste collectors, in turn, are forced to operate on fixed, predetermined routes that bear little relationship to where recyclable waste is actually accumulating on any given day. This mismatch between supply and collection capacity results in wasted fuel, underutilized vehicles, missed pickups in high-demand areas, and a complete absence of the kind of data that government agencies would need to plan recycling infrastructure investment or design effective environmental policy. This project responds directly to this gap through the design, development, and implementation of a Recyclable Waste Pickup Scheduling System a full-stack, web-based software platform purpose-built for the operational and infrastructural realities of Nigerian cities. Rather than importing a model designed for high-resource environments, the system was conceived around three distinct categories of users whose coordination failure lies at the heart of the problem: residents and businesses who generate recyclable waste and need a simple way to request its collection; waste collectors, whether formally registered companies or individual operators, who need an efficient way to receive and manage pickup assignments; and system administrators,

Item Type: Thesis (Other)
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Computing And Information Technology (FACIT)
Depositing User: Cynthia Ugwuoti
Date Deposited: 29 Jul 2026 15:25
Last Modified: 29 Jul 2026 15:25
URI: http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/6081

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