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  Awareness Raising on E-Waste Management in Ethiopia | IPEN

  3  · Pesticide Action Nexus (PAN)-Ethiopia pioneered an initial assessment of Ethiopia's E-waste situation and began a national conversation with leading Ethiopian stakeholders about the future of e-waste management. Project activities included an initial month long assessment, a national stakeholder workshop with various community and …

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  Healthcare waste generation and management …

  2024529 · The landfill method is recognized as the cheapest and most widely used solid waste management system. However, improper disposal of solid waste is a serious problem in urban areas of Ethiopia like Areka town due to the rapid growth of population and urbanization. The objective of this study is to identify suitable landfill sites for solid waste …

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  Environmental Injustice and Disposal of Hazardous Waste in Africa

  202345 · 107 Environmental Injustice and Disposal of Hazardous Waste in Africa 1965. Similarly, according to the estimates of the UNEP, “it costs as little as $2.50 per. tonne to dump hazardous waste ...

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  Challenges of plastic waste generation and management in sub …

  202061 · Plastic waste generation in sub-Saharan Africa is dependent on many factors like urbanization, etc. Currently, the population of sub-Saharan Africa is around 1 billion as of the year 2019, the amount of generated waste is 180 million tonnes at the rate of 0.5% per capita per day, the amount that is openly dumped is 70% and the plastic waste ...

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  Assessment of the magnitude and contributing factors of …

  2023725 · Magnitude of expired medicine. In the public pharmaceutical supply chain of western Ethiopia, a total of two hundred thirty-nine thousand and eight hundred one (n = 239,801) unit packs that consist of different anatomical therapeutic classifications (ATC) and dosage forms that are estimated to cost more than twenty million birr (= 20,538,198.93 …

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  Evaluation of Evolving Waste Management Strategies in …

  2024417 · Comparable to the existing practice of open disposal and burning, with only 5% recycling, four alternative scenarios were developed considering advances proposed on the City’s Structural Plan of 2017–2027. The first scenario (S-1) suggests mixed-waste collection and disposal in a sanitary landfill while keeping the current recycling.

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  Household practices and determinants of solid waste

  2023124 · The city has an estimated daily per capita solid waste generation capacity of approximately 0.45 kg (Gelan, 2021). Considering the citys geographical area and population, the ’ average waste ...

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  Ethiopia’s waste-to-energy plant is a first in Africa - UNEP

  20171124 · Ethiopia’s waste-to-energy plant is a first in Africa. For half a century, the Koshe dump site has been the only landfill in Addis Ababa. As the city has expanded, the landfill – which used to lie on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital – has become part of the urban landscape, sprawling over an area the size of 36 football pitches and ...

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  (PDF) Hazardous Waste Management: An African Overview

  202072 · Recycling 2020 5, 15 4 of 28. From Table 1, Nigeria is reported to generate the highest amount of hazardous waste in Africa, at 2,469,000 tons per annum, followed by Egyp t, at about 1,440,000 ...

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