Quantity of solid waste generation in the wards of a Tertiary Hospital

The book documents solid waste generation in typical teaching hospital of developing country. Waste quantification and characterization was done for a week in a month for a year. The extensive data collection makes available information on quantity and composition of waste generated in the wards of teaching hospital in the different ecological periods of a year which might be hard to comeby in some literature. The book will also afford the readers access to information on per capita waste generation in the different months of a year. In addition information on types and characteristics of storage receptacles used in a typical Nigerian teaching hospital were systematically documented. The book in doubt will be a good companion for students scholars researchers and policy makers in need of comprehensive and reliable data on solid waste generation sorting and storage practices in teaching hospital in Nigeria and by extension in West Africa sub-Region.