Electronic waste management in Addis Ababa: The case of Bole and Nefas Silk Lafto sub-cities

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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Electronic Waste Management

10.1039/9781847559197 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Electronic Waste

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Assessment of the Liquid Waste Management Practice of Condominium Houses in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

International Journal of Innovative Research and Development ◽

10.24940/ijird/2017/v6/i6/jun17028 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

Author(s):

Sisay Abebe ◽

Berihus Demoze

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Management Practice ◽

Addis Ababa ◽

Liquid Waste ◽

Waste Management Practice

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Towards a Smart E-Waste System Utilizing Supply Chain Participants and Interactive Online Maps

Recycling ◽

10.3390/recycling6010008 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 8

Author(s):

Tetiana Shevchenko ◽

Michael Saidani ◽

Yuriy Danko ◽

Ievgeniia Golysheva ◽

Jana Chovancová ◽

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Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Business Model ◽

Electronic Waste ◽

Precious Metals ◽

Local Delivery ◽

Waste Collection ◽

Business Model Canvas ◽

Online Maps ◽

Delivery Services ◽

Reduction Of Co2

Efficient electronic waste (e-waste) management is one of the vital strategies to save materials, including critical minerals and precious metals with limited global reserves. The e-waste collection issue has gained increasing attention in recent years, especially in developing countries, due to low collection rates. This study aims to search for progressive solutions in the e-waste collection sphere with close-to-zero transport and infrastructure costs and the minimization of consumers’ efforts towards an enhanced e-waste management efficiency and collection rate. Along these lines, the present paper develops a smart reverse system of e-waste from end-of-life electronics holders to local recycling infrastructures based on intelligent information technology (IT) tools involving local delivery services to collect e-waste and connecting with interactive online maps of users’ requests. This system considers the vehicles of local delivery services as potential mobile collection points that collect and deliver e-waste to a local recycling enterprise with a minimum deviation from the planned routes. Besides e-waste transport and infrastructure costs minimization, the proposed smart e-waste reverse system supports the reduction of CO2 through the optimal deployment of e-waste collection vehicles. The present study also advances a solid rationale for involving local e-waste operators as key stakeholders of the smart e-waste reverse system. Deploying the business model canvas (BMC) toolkit, a business model of the developed system has been built for the case of Sumy city, Ukraine, and discussed in light of recent studies.

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