Addis Ababa, 29 July 2016 (WIC) – A study conducted by Walta Information Center has identified the mushrooming infrastructure development and street vending as twin problems hampering the city administration’s effort to collect, store and dispose solid waste properly.
The Center’s Research Officer, Aschalew Worku, said that 2,000 people representing all sub cities have been randomly selected, 1924 of them have completed the questioner properly while presenting the finding of the paper to stakeholders today.
Aschalew noted that 83 percent of the respondents have completed either secondary education or tertiary education.
The researcher said that the mushrooming infrastructure development and street vending have been found to be the twin problems hampering the city administration’s effort to collect, store and dispose solid waste.
He said that close to 90 percent of the respondent dispose solid waste through junk collectors or throw in to municipal waste baskets while the remaining balance either disposing it on open areas in their neighborhoods or burn it.
According to the researcher, almost a quarter of the respondents do know the existence a government body in charge of administrating solid waste though 81 percent of the respondents have noted the existence of improvement in the solid waste management of the city in the past three years.
The study which is commissioned by Addis Ababa City Administration Communication Affairs Bureau also found that 50 percent of the respondents believe Addis Ababa has a potential to become a model city in Africa that can cater to the needs of its resident and in terms of neatness, greenery and aesthetic values by 2020.
According to information obtained from the city administration, more than 5,000 people clean the streets of Addis Ababa ever day.