Waste Management Practices of Burayu Abattoir and Its Impacts on Surrounding Community in Burayu Town, Oromiya Region, Ethiopia
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2020-10
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Addis Ababa University
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The study was intended to assess waste management practices of Burayu plc abattoir and its
impacts on surrounding community in Burayu town, Oromia Regional state, Ethiopia in
2019. The research design used was descriptive research design to agree on the waste
management practices of Burayu abattoir. This design offers to the researchers a profile of
described relevant aspects of the phenomena of interest from an individual, organizational,
and industry-oriented perspective. Burayu plc.abattoir was selected purposively based on the
availability of abattoir and its severity impact on the environment. As to assess its impact on
surrounding community, Gafarsa Burayu and Keta Burayu kebeles was selected purposively
based on their proximity to the abattoir. For this study a total of 330 households were
selected using random sampling method. The selected sample households were interviewed
using structured questioners and focus group discussion, key informant interview and field
observation were also used to collect the data. The collected data were analysed using SPSS
version 20 software. The data revealed that about 158 (47.9%) of household respondents
surrounding the abattoir was strongly disagreed with the presence of abattoir in their
vicinity. As study result indicated the abattoir wastes were directly discharged to Burayu
River and residential areas without considering environmental pollution. As a result about
48.2%, 36.4% and 42.7% of the respondents agreed as the local community in the area was
suffering with the prevalence of difficulty in breathing diseases, coughing and asthma disease
respectively as a result of poor abattoir waste management. Developing comprehensive
management system for abattoir waste including blood wastes can be further utilized as
blood meal, wastewater can be treated and reused for greenery, irrigation and cleaning
purposes and intestinal contents can be used for biogas generation and the derived from it also used for natural fertilizer to reduce environmental pollution and public health issues.
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Abattoir; waste management practices; impact; environmental pollution