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    Assessment of Municipal Solid Waste Management Practices: A case Study of Bishoftu City Administration
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-06) Endalkachew Abrhame; Filmon Hadaro
    Municipal solid waste management (MSWM) refers to the collection, transfer, treatment,recycling, resources recovery and disposal of solid waste in urban areas. This study aimed at assessment of MSWM Practices of Bishoftu City Administration Oromia regional state of Ethiopia. In the study researcher questions the existing MSWM practices look like and factors affecting MSWM system of Bishoftu City. Consequently, to accomplish the objectives descriptive type of research method was used and both primary and secondary data sources applied for the study. The primary data were collected via questionnaires, interview, and field observations. Whereas the secondary data were extracted from different published and unpublished materials. A total of 392 respondents were used in the study. The findings of the study revealed that the main types of MSW in Bishoftu are peels of vegetables, ash, plastic, paper and cardboard, garden trimmings or leaf and the physical composition of MSW in the city is composed from both biodegradable and non-degradable components, the current MSWM practice of City is weak and also there is a problem on solid waste reduction strategy: segregation, reuse, recycling, and resource recovery. According to the results three main factors that aggravate the existing poor status of MSWM practice in the ci ty. These are: socio-cultural, technical and institutional factors. Finally, to alleviate the problems the study suggest that: SBPDD and health office of the city should engage continuous aware ness creating campaign or education for the public, to improve the collection rate increase the number and capacity of MSEs, changing the open dumping system to sanitary land filling system, law enforcement section gives little attention and laws to be effective people need to know the presence of laws through awareness creation activities and implementers should aggressively work to minimize illegal disposal activities through continuous follow up.