Study of Hazardous Industrial Waste Management Practices and Development of Hazardous Industrial Waste Management Guidelines in Addis Ababa

Industries are also growing in the city and diverse industrial hazardous waste is being generated. All these waste streams are being collected, transported and disposed with the other municipal waste streams. A sustainably safe management system needs to be installed for the hazardous waste. Therefore, this study is conducted to assess hazardous waste management practice and design standard hazardous waste management guidelines. Industries generation hotspot points were randomly sampled for data generation and collected data were analyzed to determine generation rates per industry and per person for industrial waste. About 290 kg/industry/day of Industrial Hazardous wastes was generated in Addis Ababa. Regarding hazardous waste management practices in the industries hotspot areas, the survey shown that most of the hazardous wastes are not properly segregated and managed across all the three streams. Collection service is being rendered by small and micro enterprises in the city. However there are no occupational safety and health issues addressed with the system. Used chemical containers were sorted/collected and sold to people for reuse and there is no records concerning how empty containers were handled. In most cases hazardous wastes from garages and industries wastes reported to be burnt on open spaces which may lead to serious air pollution problem and health hazard from the emission. This brief assessment showed that no legally registered facilities have been established for the disposal of hazardous wastes. The assessment also revealed that most industries facilities that are regularly inspected do not meet the standard limit requirements set by the regulatory bodies. It also showed that there is no institutional system working on hazardous waste management system separately.