Electronic Waste Management Practices and Development of Electronic Waste Management Guidelines in Addis Ababa

Growth related EEE generation has also become the major issues of waste management agency. 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 electronic waste. Therefore, this study is conducted to assess hazardous electronic waste management practice and design standard hazardous waste management guidelines. WEEE generation hotspot points were randomly sampled for data generation and collected data were analyzed to determine generation rates per EEE waste. The data collection for determining hazardous electronic waste generation rate has been conducted for seven consecutive days. The generation rate of 32,597,222.48 kg/year of WEEE was generated in Addis Ababa. Regarding hazardous waste management practices in the EEE hotspot areas, the survey shown that most of the hazardous wastes were not properly segregated and managed across all the three streams. The study showed that the hazardous and non-hazardous wastes are mixed together and disposed into the environment carelessly. This brief assessment showed that no legally registered facilities have been established for the disposal of hazardous electronic wastes. The assessment also revealed that most WEEE facilities that were regularly inspected did 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.