An Assessment of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors Affecting Solid Waste Handling in Arada Sub-City, Addis Ababa
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2007-08
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
To plan and implement an inlegrated and sustainable wasre handling syslem for Ihe fUiure
assessing and distinguishing the most injluenlial socio- economic. demographic and physical
f acrors are very essential in the process of solid waste handling aparl Fom legal. inslilut;ol1al
andfinancial aspects.
The curren! solid waste management system of the city is pOOl' and relied on getting ride of the
trash with very little attention paid ta waste prevention at the source and its recovery e./forts,
which will result a miss guiding policy and a failure to design policy intervention on solid
waste managemenl ofa city.
Thus. in Arada, one of the sub-cities of Addis Ababa, 398 households were surveyed based on
systemaric random sampling and responded to designed questions which ask about their socioeconomic,
demographic, ways of waste handling and disposal as well as interview was
administered to expertise of solid waSle management al various levels.
Obtained data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistical lesls. The
descriptive statistical leSIS like percentage and inferenlial statislical lests like bi- variale
analysis ro show association and logistic regression analysis to rank and indicare Ihe slrenglh
o/,independent variables over dependent variable.
As frlr as the influence of the tested variables concerned household income, educational level
and location of community waste bins have signijicanl influence on waste handling. Higher
income groups of households showed belter waste handling practices than low income groups.
Level of education of househalds showed positive relation with solid waste handling. Location
and dislance of community waste bins have also direct impact on solid waste handling. Solid
waste handling habit of the community especially at the source is poor and feeble relationship
10 institutions. Finally household size showed neither positive nor negative relation with solid
waste handling. Thus, ro increase the consciousness of the community ahout solid wasle
handling upgrading educational level and linkage of institutions wilh communily-hoseu
organization is needed.
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Affecting Solid Waste Handling