PLASTIC / NYLON WASTE POLLUTION AND DISPOSAL IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA

This study examined the effect of plastic/nylon pollution, the disposal method and the factors influencing the methods of disposal in Oyo state. This study was conducted in eleven local government areas (LGA) of Oyo states using structured questionnaire with five hundred respondents purposively selected but 454 questionnaires were valid for the research analysis. The analytical tools used were descriptive statistics (such as percentage and frequency) and multinomial regression model. Majority (81%) of the respondents were married, about 88.6% of the respondents were educated. Most (84%) of the sampled households had a family size of between 1 and 5 with almost 60% of the respondents earning between ₦10,000-₦50,000. The study observed that 54% of the respondents’ choice of plastic and nylon disposal methods was time savings, about 86% had no difficult in disposing their waste, 29.5% of the respondents stated that plastic and nylon waste disposal block water ways. The factors influencing plastic/nylon disposal were waste collectors (p