The current state of plastic bag waste pollution in Nigeria is alarming. A number of undesirable environmental impacts including blockage of water ways and rivers, choking of animals soils and the mosaic litters of pure water sachet in the landscape require urgent attention .Externalities are the primary cause of the plastic problem: external costs from end-of –life environmental impacts and resource depletion are not factored in the products costs ,resulting in plastics being so cheap that they are given away ‘ for free’ which serve the profligate use –and throw pattern of consumption and production .Institutional ,policy failures and inadequacy of environmental by-laws to deter littering and illegal dumping also contribute to the problem. This project is an application of the waste management hierarchy of re-use and economic instruments to input sustainability in the post –consumer management of plastic bags wastes in Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria. Results indicate that a price –tag to plastic waste could convert the problem into opportunity. We therefore recommend that the principle of plastic bag reuse could be applied to the larger society to solve the problem of plastic bag menace in Nigeria.
Ogwo et al. (Mon,) studied this question.