It is postulated that effective solid waste management is connected to good economic management and together they are imperative in ensuring environmental cleanliness and safety in a society. This is so because economic waste which is related to corruption and miss-appropriation in acquisition of property is connected to solid waste generation and people’s unconcerned attitudes toward its control. Ignorantly, a lot of mechanisms and resources have been devoted by governments and organizations in Nigeria to managing solid waste but the results have often been unsatisfactory because appreciation of the cause and effect of a problem is a prerequisite to finding a lasting solution to it; thus it has continued to be a major source of health hazard and disaster in this country. Its consequences have been frequent epidemics and disasters like flooding and fire outbreak resulting in deaths, displacement and migration of people in large scale. Researchers blame the deplorable state of the environment in Nigeria on lack of effective means of waste management including its primary collection and enhanced large-scale disposal as well as awareness of its generation and consequences in most places and suggest the use of art and people-oriented technologies in it. In the light of this, this paper surveyed available information and proposed adaptation of sack-based sculpture as an instrument of war against solid waste in many of its ramifications especially in creating awareness of its cause and luring its producers into its management. In its practical exercise, sacks were aesthetically placed in some households in Samaru, Zaria and occupants used them to develop habit of picking up solid waste; and sculpture pieces developed from waste-stalked sacks evoked sense of self re-examination on their observers. Sack-based sculpture is, therefore, recommended for art practices in Nigeria for managing waste better and bringing sculpture closer to the people.
Ifeanyichiukwu Asogwa (Thu,) studied this question.