INTRODUCTION
Keep
Akwapoly Clean awareness campaign is a set of messages in form of billboard
containing photographs, lettering or follow-ups that is being sent out to the
entire Polytechnic Community. Cleaning of an environment is a key activity in
many societies for centuries. The need to maintain a clean environment is as old
as human existence and it is visible in biblical times (i.e. BC and AD) where
the Israelites were taught how to dispose body of waste. There is also a common
saying: “cleanliness is next to godliness”.
Cleaning is the process of removing unwanted
substances, such as dirt, infectious agents, and other impurities, from an
object or environment. Cleaning occurs in many different contexts, and uses
many different methods. Several occupations are devoted to cleaning. Therefore,
societies have adopted various ways of keeping their environments clean despite
the fact that economic activities of humanity have been countering these
efforts due to their increased sophistication.
In
line with cleanliness, waste disposal is the process of collecting,
transporting, processing or removal, managing and monitoring of waste
materials. This term usually relates to materials produced by human activity,
and the process is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the
environment or aesthetics.
The
problem of Keeping the environment clean, waste management and disposal becomes
increasingly pressing as human population, industrial activity and material
consumption expand. To most Nigerian Institutions which Akwa Ibom State
Polytechnic is not exceptional, the collection and disposal of public wastes,
overgrown grasses, unkempt gutter, untidy class rooms etc. posed the most visible and costly solid waste
management problem. Defecation and indiscriminate urination however, dwarf the
institution wastes in magnitude particularly toxic and hazardous wastes present
a severe danger to the environment.
