This study was designed to determine the prevalence of environmental abuse at Adolor Junction in Ugbowo, Benin City. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, three research questions were raised and answered. The descriptive survey research was adopted for the study. The sample for the study consisted of sixty-eight (68) traders comprising twenty-eight (28) lock-up shops owners and forty (40) roadside traders at Adolor Junction. The census sampling technique was used for sample selection and in all, (28) lock-up shops owners and forty (40) roadside traders were selected. The instrument for data collection was an interview schedule. The instrument was validated using the face and content approach while the elements of credibility, transferability, dependability and conformability were used to determine the trustworthiness of the instrument. Transcriptions from the interview sessions were reproduced and reported. Findings from the study revealed that Adolor junction traders have a poor perception of environmental abuse, the traders possessed an average level of knowledge about safe environmental practices and that the prevalence of environmental abuse was as a result of irregularity of government appointed waste carriers, high cost of private waste collectors, increase in the number of road side traders and lack of punitive measures on offenders as well as absence of properly built or designated area as a market. Hence, it was recommended that community education programme should be designed by community development agents to conscientise traders on the need and importance of safe and healthy environment both for them and their customers. Also, community development agencies should adopt community education programme to help traders improve their level of knowledge on environmental issues and make deliberate effort to ensure their trading environment is friendly and well-kept. Government should also critically investigate the reason behind the inconsistency of public waste collectors with a view to making them more effective.