SURVEY OF NIGERIAN LAW AND POLICY ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT

Abstract

The problem about waste generation started when the population of man is a defined structure increased. Since then, the trend in waste output has been on the increase both in form of absolute quality and per capita basis. Thus, with industrial revolutions new large-scale manufacturing processes produced increased waste and waste of a different kind. The growth of towns led to an increase in domestic waste and a decrease in the space available for disposal. Hence, the urgent need for the application of artificial intelligence in waste management and the need for law and policy standard and basic frameworks to regulate waste generation production, collection, disposal and of course, management in Nigeria for sustainable development. This paper examines the available Environmental and Waste Management Laws in Nigeria to see whether they make provision for the application of artificial intelligence for efficient and effective management of waste which abounds in our environment. This paper analyses Nigeria’s legal capacity to optimize artificial intelligence from the point of the country’s technological progress. We found that the use of computer and information technology is of recent existence in many strata of Nigerian economic, production and management settings. As such, Artificial intelligence is of recent origin in these areas in Nigeria when compared with developed economies like United States of America, United Kingdom, Singapore, Pakistan, India and Italy. It is the view of this paper that non determination on capacity for functionality of digital networks in the country distracts and undermines framework for standardization and optimization. We recommended an amendment of Nigerian Environmental Laws to provide for artificial intelligence in wastes management for sustainable development.