Legal Framework for the Regulation of Waste in Nigeria

Abstract

Waste is the greatest danger facing mankind in the world today therefore measures must be nationally and internationally taken to control disposal of such waste to save humanity from total extermination from the surface of the earth. The paper, therefore, addresses the problem of waste and the effective legal framework for solving such environmental problems as well as the machinery for its enforcement .And the conclusion and recommendation made Introduction Environmental problem is now a subject of serious international concern. These problems include atmospheric pollution, marine pollution, global warming, and ozone depletion, the danger of nuclear and other extra-hazardous substances that threatened wild life species. Such Environmental issues have assumed a global character as Environment is said to be beyond peoples immediate surrounding, sometimes assuming international dimensions.