 It's everywhere you look in Lagos, on the streets and drains of Hybro-Victoria Island, as well as places considered to be the neighborhood of the less privileged, I'm talking about waste. An estimated 14,000 metric tons of waste are generated in Lagos every day, and most of it is improperly disposed to constituent health and environmental hazards. In this feature, plus TV Africa's Messi, a Beco, delves into the waste disposal culture of everyday Lagosians. July the 16th was a day many people who work at the marina, a business district in Lagos which never happened. These was worth the packing lots of marina looked like, as it rained all day. Even after the rain stopped, it took hours before the flood waters receded. This is one of the reasons. Block drains. Dumping waste in the gutters and water channels is a terrible thing to do. By throwing your waste, especially things like nylon bags and those pure water sachets, into those water channels, your very action might be responsible for people dying, especially children. Because those water channels is where the flood water from the rain will go. And if it's blocked, then you get floods. Visit to some parts of a Jigunle or Balinday, Marua, Adu, Badu ratio, clock drains, stagnant water and lack of water channels. These people agree to improper disposal of waste. I'll tell them on the road to be frank, because you can't find any waste being around, just put them on the road. Put them anywhere you find comforts. Enjoy it on the road now. It is a common place for people to dump bags of waste on the roadsides of Adu and Badore in Ajara area. But that doesn't mean there aren't residents of Lagos who dispose of the air waste properly. You see this dirty now? This is not dirty. You want to use it for it and you can use it for your oil. But that place where we are staying, selling markets, after we clean that place, I will sweep that place, after I sweep it, I put it inside the nylon and took it there. So if you want to come, go to your carrier and go. In my house, we do to put it inside one black nylon, then we put it at the gates. Then the long man that we used to pay them, they will come around and pick the refuges every Monday, at times twice in a week, they will come and pick the refuges. Those who do it properly pay a monthly bill to enable private contractors, known as private sector participants or PSPs, evacuate the waste the government designated dump sites. But Maja Kudumi says there is a better way. This practice of dumping the waste outside the house or just in the mid-journ on the road so the waste collectors can come and pick it up, is not the best, is not the best. But also from ourselves as individuals, we have to ensure that we put our waste in a place where it can be better collected. Is it so difficult to have your community, if it's a very dense community, have a few dustbins? Lagos States generates more than 14,000 metric tons of refuse every day, according to its ministry for the environment and water resources. But only 70% of that goes to approved dump site. This means the remaining 30% amounting to 4,200 metric tons find its way to illegal dump site, the streets and the drainages. That is enough waste to fill 5.6 million regular bottles of water illegally dumped in Lagos State every day. Merci beaucoup for Plus TV Africa.