Abstract:
The main danger to the continued existence of living things has been environmental degradation
brought on by solid waste. The aim of this study was to assessment of solid waste generation and
management practices and analysis of some microbiological load of these wastes from Assela
town. From the entire population of 8 kebeles (from population size of 100,473), the daily,
weekly, monthly, and annual averages of waste disposal were 2929.8, 203908.471, 873893.49,
and 10486721.88. The total daily trash generation rate was 396.35. Low income households
produced the most garbage, followed by middle income households, according to the sampled
household income levels. Trash paper made up 63.7% of the total solid waste, followed by
textile. Containers were used for disposal in Asella (9.4%). Sinus 59% had the greatest negative
effects on the town's health. In the town, 66% of the waste produced wasn't recycled. From six
sample sites samples was collected to isolate presented bacterial population on bacteriological
media. Potential pathogens were isolated from the isolates such as salmonella (sample 3, 4 and
5), Shigella(sample 3, 4,5 and 6), E.coli(sample 3. 4 and 5) and Klebsiella (sample 2, 5 and 6).
The antimicrobial resistance of the isolated microbial pathogens was seen. And most of the
pathogens were found to be resistant to chromonphenicol (Sample 2 againest Klebsiella by
12+0.23mm, sample3 against shigella (19+0.02mm), Salmonella(25+1.02), E.coli(20+0.22) and
S. aureous (27+0.44)) and tetracycline ( Sample 5 by 20+0.55). From this study it was
recommended that waste disposal policy should be there in order to reduce the waste pollution
and it’s side effect on the community.
