Lecturer and principal investigator on the Bin-Adjacent Disposal Initiative, a multi-year programme establishing, at some expense, that litter accumulates near where people already are.
- Affiliation
- Slop University Department of Applied Incivility
- a.chukwu@slop.university
- Contact
- Office hours posted on the Drop-in Sessions page; email for anything that can't wait.
Dr. Chukwu completed both her undergraduate degree and her PhD in Environmental Sociology at the University of Lagos, then held a postdoctoral fellowship at Seoul National University, where a three-year, externally funded programme confirmed — to a publishable standard of rigour — that litter accumulates on a footpath in inverse proportion to distance from a bin.
She has since formalised this into what she calls the Threshold-Litter Model, presented as a keynote address at the International Symposium on Ambient Disposal Behaviour and now cited, by her own count, in two other papers. Colleagues in the department privately concede it is the closest thing the course has to a genuinely quantitative finding; Dr. Chukwu prefers “foundational.” She continues to argue, in successive grant applications, that the model has been chronically under-enforced in the field despite being, as she puts it, “essentially self-evident.”