Recycling of Solid Waste and the '′Yan Bola' Underground Economy

A Survey of Environmental Entrepreneurs in Central Nigeria

Bibliographic Data

ID5178775
AuthorsIbrahim Umaru (Nasarawa State University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume30
Issue1
Pages45-54
Publication date2010-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Human Ecology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0970-9274 • E-ISSN: 2456-6608
PublisherKamla Raj Enterprises (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/09709274.2010.11906271
OpenAlexW2309479064
LanguageEN
Citations received2

In a society where environmental concerns over inadequate disposal of hazardous liquid and solid wastes and recycling are officially treated with somewhat nonchalance, the activities of human scavengers of metal, rubber, paper/paperboard yard and wood waste products, variously referred to in one of Nigeria’s major local languages (“Hausa”) as ‘Yan Bola’ or ‘Yan Gwangwani’ or ‘Yan Tinka’ squarely fit into the definition of ‘environmental entrepreneurs’ in Nigeria. Though their existence and activities are largely ignored by national statistics and indeed past policy interventions, the contribution to income generation, employment, tax revenue, skill/technology transfer and value added of this rather underground economy seems overwhelming. With cross-sectional data from four States in Central Nigeria, this study uses quantitative method to examine the contribution of the underground economy to income generation, employment and value added. The findings of the study merely go to confirm the increasingly important role the ‘`Yan Bola’ business is playing in the local economy of the area

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Informal sector · Municipal solid waste · Public economics · Revenue · Tax revenue · Waste management · Yard · Engineering · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

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