Fig. 1

Relative abundance of predominant bacterial phyla on dumpsite. a show the overall predominant taxa in different solid wastes pooled together. Different colours represent types of taxa and their relative abundance. b show levels of abundance of each predominant taxon when each solid waste was analysed separately. Solid biomedical waste (Biom, n =15 domestic solid waste (Dom, n = 33), faecal material of pigs on scavenging on dumpsite (FecD, n = 20) and in river sludge (Riv, n =8). Only phyla in abundance ≥ 0.1 % are shown. Bacterial taxa were assigned at 97 % sequence similarity cut-off level