Rapidity of population, urbanisation and economic growths has increased solid waste generation rates and material
composition (Guerrero, Maas & Hogland, 2013 in [1]. Finding sustainable option of solid waste disposal
remains a major challenge to waste management industry (Farrell & Jones, 2009 in [2]. Thus, in Nigeria and
most developing countries, authorities are facing the challenges to determine the appropriate option among alternative
policies for sustainable solid waste management in cities. Many authors, [3] [4] opined that the solid
composition was very essential to determine appropriate policy option for solid waste management in any city.
Thus, the waste material composition analysis is necessary to determine the choice of appropriate policy for
solid waste management in Nigerian cities