Practice and Challenges of Solid Waste Segregation in Addis Ababa City
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2023-02
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Addis Ababa University
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Solid waste segregation has a critical role for effective waste management; however its implementation level in cities of developing countries including Ethiopia still remained at low level. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to analyze the practices and challenges of solid waste segregation in Addis Ababa city. To achieve the planned study objective data was generated through household survey, focus group discussions and key informant interviews. The collected quantitative data were cleaned, encoded and statistically analyzed using a descriptive statistics method using SPSS while thematic analysis method was used to analyze and describe the qualitative data. The data analysis revealed that only 21.3% respondents reported that they segregate the solid waste frequently and about half 45.5% segregate solid waste rarely. Conversely, a considerable proportion 28.7% of the respondents reported that they don’t segregate the solid waste and the rest 4.5% respondents reported that they were not sure. This result implies that the solid waste segregation at household level was implemented through almost one-fifth percent of the total sampled of respondents that was correctly practiced while the majority of respondents were somehow practicing rarely on segregating the solid waste which could be considered as an opportunity to encourage the practice in the city. Moreover, the study finding also showed that the practice has been challenged by different factors like social, institutional and contextual aspects that can further be classified as negligence, budget scarcity and lack of training, and lack of guidelines, respectively. These all challenges have negative and statistically significant effects (chisquare test, P<0.05) on solid waste segregation. The Chi-square test showed that respondent’s sex, monthly income, marital status, home type, willingness, collecting materials availability, awareness and accesses to guideline of survey respondents were statistically significant (P <0.05) associated with solid waste segregation practice. Therefore, this tells that there should be a broad awareness creation to the general public to improve knowledge and attitude of dwellers, training program for dominant stakeholders and waste collectors for proper waste segregation practice, and allocating sufficient budget to support the practices with appropriate basic warnings, tools and equipments so as to improve solid waste segregation practice at the city level.
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Solid waste segregation, waste management, public awareness, recycling industries, Addis Ababa