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Assessment of status of solid waste management in Asella town, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Improper solid waste management (SWM) is a major public health and environmental concern in the urban areas of many developing countries such as Asella Town. The aim of this study was to assess the status of SWM in Asella town. METHODS: A community-based cross-sectional study design was...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6739914/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31510950 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7551-1 |
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author | Lema, Gorfnesh Mesfun, Million Getachew Eshete, Amade Abdeta, Gizachew |
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description | BACKGROUND: Improper solid waste management (SWM) is a major public health and environmental concern in the urban areas of many developing countries such as Asella Town. The aim of this study was to assess the status of SWM in Asella town. METHODS: A community-based cross-sectional study design was used to assess the status of improper SWM and associated factors in Asella town. From the total of eight kebeles (smallest administrative unit in Ethiopia) four kebeles were randomly selected using lottery method. The sample size was 413 households. The households were proportionally allocated to each randomly selected kebeles. The data was collected by pretested questionnaire in the local language. Data was entered using statistical software Epi Info version seven and transferred to SPSS version 21. Descriptive data analysis was done to summarize the socioeconomic status of the respondents. Chi-square was used to show the association between the status of solid waste management and different variables. Binary logistic regression was used to determine the potential factors for improper SWM. RESULT: 332 (82.8%), had improper solid waste management practice. Lack of adequate knowledge about solid waste management and not having access to door to door solid waste collection could have contributed to the reported improper solid waste practice. Participants who didn’t have access to door to door solid waste collection service were about three times more likely to practice improper solid waste management when compared to those who had access (AOR = 2.873, 95 CI (1.565,5.273) P = 0.001). CONCLUSION: The study finding showed that, the majority of the residents practiced improper solid waste management. Lack of adequate knowledge about solid waste management and not having access to door to door solid waste collection could have contributed to the reported improper solid waste practice. Therefore, there is a need to enhance the awareness of the community about proper SWM and to improve the door to door solid waste collection service by the town municipality. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-019-7551-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-67399142019-09-16 Assessment of status of solid waste management in Asella town, Ethiopia Lema, Gorfnesh Mesfun, Million Getachew Eshete, Amade Abdeta, Gizachew BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Improper solid waste management (SWM) is a major public health and environmental concern in the urban areas of many developing countries such as Asella Town. The aim of this study was to assess the status of SWM in Asella town. METHODS: A community-based cross-sectional study design was used to assess the status of improper SWM and associated factors in Asella town. From the total of eight kebeles (smallest administrative unit in Ethiopia) four kebeles were randomly selected using lottery method. The sample size was 413 households. The households were proportionally allocated to each randomly selected kebeles. The data was collected by pretested questionnaire in the local language. Data was entered using statistical software Epi Info version seven and transferred to SPSS version 21. Descriptive data analysis was done to summarize the socioeconomic status of the respondents. Chi-square was used to show the association between the status of solid waste management and different variables. Binary logistic regression was used to determine the potential factors for improper SWM. RESULT: 332 (82.8%), had improper solid waste management practice. Lack of adequate knowledge about solid waste management and not having access to door to door solid waste collection could have contributed to the reported improper solid waste practice. Participants who didn’t have access to door to door solid waste collection service were about three times more likely to practice improper solid waste management when compared to those who had access (AOR = 2.873, 95 CI (1.565,5.273) P = 0.001). CONCLUSION: The study finding showed that, the majority of the residents practiced improper solid waste management. Lack of adequate knowledge about solid waste management and not having access to door to door solid waste collection could have contributed to the reported improper solid waste practice. Therefore, there is a need to enhance the awareness of the community about proper SWM and to improve the door to door solid waste collection service by the town municipality. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-019-7551-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6739914/ /pubmed/31510950 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7551-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lema, Gorfnesh Mesfun, Million Getachew Eshete, Amade Abdeta, Gizachew Assessment of status of solid waste management in Asella town, Ethiopia |
title | Assessment of status of solid waste management in Asella town, Ethiopia |
title_full | Assessment of status of solid waste management in Asella town, Ethiopia |
title_fullStr | Assessment of status of solid waste management in Asella town, Ethiopia |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of status of solid waste management in Asella town, Ethiopia |
title_short | Assessment of status of solid waste management in Asella town, Ethiopia |
title_sort | assessment of status of solid waste management in asella town, ethiopia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6739914/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31510950 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7551-1 |
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