The natural as well as the man made or built environment is increasingly threatened by two things: waste and #energy.A nation’s ability to dispose of waste, finds enough energy , and maintains a balance in the environment greatly affects the living conditions of her citizens. A good solution to the waste problem in Nigeria and #Africa as a whole, would be to generate #energy from #wastes. And this can be done by burning them in an incinerator. During open dump burning of waste, the energy of combustion is wasted as is the common trend in most African communities across the continent. The catch will be to channel this energy of combustion to useful purposes like running a boiler, driving a turbine, heating a building, or generating electricity. In this dispensation this will be economical for industries across Nigeria and Africa to provide some or all of their own power by burning their own wastes. To use waste for energy production effectively, the theories and data of thermodyna