Abstract
Urbanization is refers to the population shift from rural to urban area and gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas. It is growing issue, in Addis Ababa city the numbers of population is rapidly increasing time to time every year, this has many challenge on community of different infrastructures like solid waste management properly in city. This study review the major influences of urbanization on solid waste management and consequent of solid waste production and their management problems in Addis Ababa city starting from 2013-2017. There are many challenges of solid waste management in Addis Ababa city through the year, these are urban management problem, Physical constraints, budgeting and low community participation in city is majors. Inadequate management of municipal solid waste has many impacts on community every year. These impacts are socio- economical impact and environmental impact. Keywords : sources, generation, collection, transport, disposal, waste management, challenges, Addis Ababa city DOI : 10.7176/CER/11-5-02 Publication date :June 30 th 2019
Highlights
What is urbanization? Urbanization is general increments of population and the numbers of industrial resolution
Urbanization is one of the current issue in Addis Ababa city due to rapid increasing of numbers of population time to time without any gap, this have a great challenges on different infrastructures of city, like domestic water supply, municipal solid and liquid waste management, housing place and on other infrastructures
Municipal solid waste is a waste which generated from different urban areas with various quantity and quality
Summary
What is urbanization? Urbanization is general increments of population and the numbers of industrial resolution. 2. Challenges of urbanization in AA city Urbanization in Addis Ababa has many challenges on different infrastructure of city, like municipal solid waste management, water supply, sewer system, air pollution, bad city planning, traffic and congestion, housing, food security, affect environments and economy of the city direct or indirect especially low levels of income communities. Domestic municipal solid waste: is the solid waste produced from residential area by different human activities, like food cooking, cleaning different thing, by old cloths, fuel burning, obsolete utensils, furniture activities and equipments This waste is affect the city because the sources is depends on numbers of population in city especially food waste. In Addis Ababa city there are more numbers of commercial area and they generates more amounts of solid waste per day through a year, especially food waste and plastic waste. 60% the total wastes are organic, 15% comprises of recyclables materials and others are about 25%
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