Asssessing the Challenges of Urban Solid Waste Collectors Performance in Four Selected Sub-Cities of Addis Ababa: Ethiopia
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2021-12
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
In most of the developing countries, it is common to observe, solid wastes uncollected simply dumped in
open areas, road sides, river courses, gullies, the disposal method that the town used is also open
dumping type which widely practiced in the sub-cities which has hazardous effect on health and the
environment. The main purpose of this study is to know assessing the challenges of solid waste
collection practice on the selected four subs-cities of Addis Ababa. In this study, survey research
strategy was applied using structure questionnaires, the primary data collected from 55 sample solid
waste collecting enterprises selected purposively from the study areas. Data collection tools like
questionnaires, key informant- interview and observation were arranged with solid waste enterprises,
sub-cities solid waste disposal administrator and team leaders to generate additional information. The
finding revealed that Socio-economic characteristics such as (sex, age, educational level, income and
work experience), Socio-economic factors such as (access to collectors, inadequate service coverage,
operational insufficiency), solid waste disposal mechanisms (open burning, open dumping, incinerator
mechanism) were significantly influence effective collections on’ solid waste disposal practices in the
study sub-cities. Similarly, short term Training, sex of collector’s group chairperson, educational
attainment of the collections group chairperson and collection frequency of solid waste collectors were
recognized as factors affecting effective solid waste collection performance. Based on the multinomial
logit regression model factors contributed solid waste collection performance for the improvement of
environmental cleaning was determined a significant impact on dependent or outcome variable. These
the likelihood ratio chi-square test to test whether there is a significant improvement in fit of the final
model relative to the intercept only model. In this case, we see a significance improvement in fit of the
final model over the null model (x2(4) =72.992, P=.000) (see table 4.14-4.16).This indicates that each
independent variable can play a significant role in shaping effective solid waste collection for
environmental cleaning. Therefore, the study recommended that municipal administration has to
encourage the residents on effective ways to solid waste disposal practice; extend collectors’ awareness
with provision of training and provide more solid waste collection facilities and equipment of the
collectors would be changed.
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Solid waste collection practice and performance for environmental cleaning