Glaxo Smithkline (GSK) Nigeria Plc, is a corporate organization, which was incorporated in Nigeria as a public limited liability company in 1971. Currently it has tow factories located in Agbara and Ilupeju, GS is quoted on the Nigeria stock market and is positioned to be the leading pharmaceutical company in Nigeria GS line of product include
The analgesics, multivitamin tonic and laxatives are manufactured at the Ilupeju factory, while the Agbara orsal care is under contract manufacture with UACP and PP as an embodiment of it’s valves GS integrates environment and safety into the very fabric of the business to benefit her various customers and to achieve:
There also, exist standards, covering emissions to air and water, waste disposal and energy usage in GSK Nigeria Plc generally, there exist following requirements:
All manufacturing process are usually accomplained with by waste generation. In GSK sources of waste include the various raw and packaging materials, chemical and chemical products, intermediate and finished products, metal scraps, sand, spent grease oil, gaseous emissions/fumes petrochemical and domestic wastes.
These waste are commonly categorized into three forms viz solid waste, liquid/effluent waste, and sem-solid (paste form) waste.
These forms of waste could be hazardous or non-hazardous. The hazardous waste include:
The non-hazardous waste include but not limited in packaging waste paper, plastic, food.
Waste management including strategies has been a global concern and its effect on environment is currently top on international agenda. To this effect GSK budget and spends an average of N2.5 million on waste management annually.
Waste is an inevitable problem, and penalty is paid by industrialized and industrializing nations. Effort have been geared towards the treatment, disposal and management of waste with the driving objective of improving current health and environmental impacts.
A most promising step in solving various waste problems is the prevention of waste at it’s source.
Pharmaceutical industries have been identified as one of the major culprist in the issue of waste mismanagement. This is considering the kind of hazardous and non-hazardous substances produced from their activities and which have also led to serious problems to both the industry and society at large, like economic financial loss, pollution/epidemic and even death. It is important to access how these problems arise.
Various waste reduction strategies have been adapted by different communities/organizations in the economy but now effective these strategies have been over the years shall be major focus of this study. In this, with this, the study objectives of this work will include:
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: Industries do not deliberately plan for waste disposal and management.H1
: Adequate was disposal and management is a major planning decision in the Pharmaceutical industry.H0
: There is no significant relationship between firms morality in the pharmaceutical industry and their waste management programs.H0
: Companies social responsibilities, to not include the issue of waste disposal and management.HA
: Companies social responsibilities include effective waste management attract positive relationship with the firm and public.
This research work has been carried out to serve as a source material for the management of waste in the waste management industry in particular and the economy as a whole.
Indepth study has done on area like:
The practical exposure and operations of firms in the industry, vis-à-vis the enormous problems of waste management which this exercise has given to the researcher is quite appreciated and of future benefit.
Finally, there is no doubt that other researchers in this field and Glaxo Smithkline Plc in particular, will find this work interesting, useful and quite challenging.
For the purpose of this study, the scope shall be limited to the waste generation, treatment and disposal with special interest on waste reduction strategies adopted within Glaxo Smithline Nigeria Plc (Ojota and its factories) over the past decade during the period under study (early 90’s – 2003). It is possible that some required data may not have been properly documented but efforts should be made to historically generate such data, which will be subjected to valid statistically engineered historical data is subject to verification.
An obvious limitation of this study is time that has also affected it. Again the limitation of this study has been designed to the standard of the academics as for the writing of the project work is concerned.
I would also like to write more on this but control it was to stop at this limit because there are some without being answered due to some personal reason.
Finally the study is limited by the vagranies of the Nigerian Education, Economic and Social events.