Waste Management Practices of Burayu Abattoir and Its Impacts on Surrounding Community in Burayu Town, Oromiya Region, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mulugeta PhD, Mesay | |
| dc.contributor.author | Abdi, Mamo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-10T07:19:49Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T08:41:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-10T07:19:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T08:41:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/25351 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Abattoir; waste management practices; impact; environmental pollution | en_US |
| dc.title | Waste Management Practices of Burayu Abattoir and Its Impacts on Surrounding Community in Burayu Town, Oromiya Region, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |