Environmental Adult Education Programmes and Waste Management Disposal in the Public Modern Markets in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined environmental adult education programmes and waste management disposal in the public modern markets in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised 50 respondents comprising 23 market women from Sangana market, Afikpo and Rumuwoji ultra modern market in mile 1 and 27 market women from Bishop Okoye, Samwoko and Oroworukwo ultra modern market mile 3. The study adopted total enumeration method in which the entire population was studied without sampling due to the manageable size of the population. Instrument for data collection was a self-structured designed questionnaire titled "Environmental Adult Education Programmes and Waste Management Disposal in the public modern markets in Port Harcourt Questionnaire" (EAEPWMDQ) with a cumulative reliability index of 0.76 obtained showed the instrument was reliable. The questionnaire was structured using the four point Likert rating scale response of Very High Extent (VHE) = 4points, High Extent (HE)= 3points, Low Extent LE = 2points, and Very Low Extent (VLE) = 1point. Mean and standard deviation statistics were used to answer the research questions, while z-test statistical tool was used to test the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that market women in mile 1 and mile 3 market engaged in keeping the environment clean after their daily sales and the weekly sanitation organized by market chairman equally has been of great help in keeping the market clean at the end of every week. It was therefore recommended that public markets and its environs should be swept and kept clean regularly by these who makes any shop in the market at the close of their daily sales, and market chairmen should ensure markets are kept clean and everyone should keep his/her shade clean on every general market sanitation day.