LOCATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF ABTATOIRS IN IBADAN

The location of dangerous or obnoxious facilities is receiving increasing attention worldwide (FAO 1995). The beginning of the past decade witnessed some enlightment in the western world of environmental protection and control of obnoxious facilities which later became a global affair. The promulgation of the federal Protection Agency Decree 58 ·of 1988 in Nigeria aims at enforcing the operators of industries to incorporate Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) into the plan of their project. Abattoir which is a service factory where the cattle and other livestock are slaughtered for conversion into  meat equally refers to an area where public health personnel conduct; ante and post mothern examination on animals before slaughtering and. distribution to the public as food. Just like any other human activities, abattoirs require the use of space and resources. In essence this human activities will have environmental effects if they are wrongly located. The environmental effects of abattoirs which is the focus of this study takes into consideration the huge amount of wastes the abattoirs generate and consequently how they affect the neighbourhood.