Solid wastes comprise all the wastes arising from human and animal activities that are normally solid, discarded as useless or unwanted materials. Ethiopia is one of the developing countries, the urban areas have problem of solid waste management. This study aimed to assess household solid waste management and hygene practice in woreda 15 from july 5- august 5, 2020. To accomplish the objectives descriptive type of research method was used and both primary and secondary data sources applied for the study. The primary data were collected via questionnaires, interview,FGD and field observations. Whereas the secondary data were extracted from different published and unpublished materials. A total of 370 respondents were used in the study.Data analyses was done using SPSS for windows version 24 after checking for missing values and outliers. The findings of the study revealed that the majority of the households (85.1%) in the study area had no common waste bin container. At household level(92.4%) bottles and glasses were the most difficult wastes to manage. In this study respondent households were asked what type of temporary storage waste container they use and the most common used containers were sacks, followed by baskets and plastics 325 (87.8%), 28(7.6 %) and 7(1.9 %) respectively and the remaining 10 (2.7%) said they used a can container. From the present study most of households (79 %) not separate their waste. The current study revealed that solid waste management practice of the households was poor and improper in the study areawith low awareness and attitude on solid waste management practiceand gap on enforcement of rules and regulations were reasons for low performance of solid waste management. The result from FGD and interview revealed that the problems of the existing system in Woreda 15 was lack of awareness of the household heads towards household solid waste management , rules and regulations of the woreda, lack enforcement of rules and regulation, community members and the household owners. Thus the community has to be provided with adequate education and develop awareness on how to handle its solid wastes at home and about the consequences of disposing solid.Finally, the study forwarded some important recommendations towards improving the waste management practices. Keywords: Household, solid waste management, Woreda 15

TITLE - Community Based Assessment on Household Solid Waste Management and hygiene practice in Woreda 15 Kolfe Keranyo Sub-city, Addis Ababa
AUTHOR - Hadush Atsbha
••••••IJSER Edition - June 2022

UNIVERSITY - Addis Ababa Medical College
GUIDE NAME -
Hadush
Atsbha