"By 2025, waste produced by cities around the globe will be enough to fill a line of rubbish trucks 3,100 miles long every day."
- World Bank Group
- World Bank Group
Waste is a global issue common to all urban areas. The world now creates more than a billion tons of garbage a year, which it incinerates, buries, exports, and recycles. As major cities continue to expand so must their capacity to handle enormous quantities of waste. In Lagos, the megalopolis of Nigeria, it seemed easy enough to drive waste outside of town to a 100 acre Olusosun landfill site. In the past, Olusosun seemed far enough to not taint city life, but due to unprecedented rapid growth, Lagos has expanded well beyond Olusosun. Olusosun now finds itself in the city center directly off the main highway and surrounded by a hospital, primary school, and homes.
Perhaps a new program could anchor the site, provide a vibrant destination for the city as well as the surrounding community, and facilitate new attitudes about waste disposal and management?
Perhaps a new program could anchor the site, provide a vibrant destination for the city as well as the surrounding community, and facilitate new attitudes about waste disposal and management?
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