Electronic waste generation level and characteristics in the City of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kitila, Abenezer Wakuma; Woldemikael, Solomon Mulugeta

doi:10.1504/ijee.2019.102382

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“…For instance, Theodros (2010) confirmed that in the city of Addis Ababa a lot of awareness-raising activities took place through Mass Media such as television, radio, and poster pertaining to the solid waste management; but not to any specific hazardous wastes like the e-waste. Likewise, Gudeta et al (2015) reported that most of the sample households of the city of Addis Ababa had no comprehensive idea about the health risks of electronic waste. This is congruent to the assumptions made by earlier studies that gross lack of awareness about e-waste is a major problem (Gudeta et al, 2013).…”

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“…The gradual but conspicuous growth of e-waste demands early, planned strategies for dealing with it. Improper e-waste management is an escalating problem all over Ethiopia, but eluding necessary attention (Gudeta et al, 2015). A report from United Nations University (UNU)-hosted Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP) initiative indicate that about 4,300 tons of televisions, computers, mobile phones, and refrigerators are stored in major urban centers of Ethiopia, particularly in Addis Ababa.…”

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Public awareness, involvement, and practices in electronic waste management in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kitila

Woldemikael

2020

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Following the upsurge of technological developments escorted with scale economies, the electronic industry has decidedly growing and brought one of the major environmental problem known as electronic waste or e-waste. In particular, this study investigates the public awareness about e-waste and the level of engagement in e-waste management practices. The survey covers household heads, general service department workers and higher governmental officials of Addis Ababa. The findings discovered that households’ level of awareness about e-waste and its management was much lower than the general service department personnel and higher governmental officials. Evidently, the ordinal regression outputs has revealed statistically significant results between the sub-cities as well as the educational institutions and governmental sector offices. It also appears that respondent’s educational qualifications and monthly incomes had unequivocally affects the awareness and engagement level. E-waste is considered and treated like other types of municipal solid wastes. It is ostensible that there were newly purchased electronic equipment but which are not yet serviceable due to the absence of manuals, their sizes and designs and lack of knowhow. Therefore, in view of these veracities, the study discernibly highlighted the implications of the existing status and suggests certain recommendations to raise public awareness on e-waste.

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Public awareness, involvement, and practices in electronic waste management in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kitila

Woldemikael

2020

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Electronic waste generation level and characteristics in the City of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Public awareness, involvement, and practices in electronic waste management in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Public awareness, involvement, and practices in electronic waste management in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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