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Abstract This thesis aimed at assessment of current municipal solid waste management practices and problems with particular emphasis to storage practices and container location in Nefas-silk lafto sub-city. Besides, the study had also specific objectives such as the existing status and spatial coverage of municipal solid waste management, the solid waste storage practices at household level and the locations of solid waste storage containers (skip points) in terms of accessibility and health threat to the community of Nifas-silk lafto sub-city in line with Ethiopian National Solid Waste Management Standards and other relevant international standards. The researcher used mixing quantitative and qualitative methods, and to select the target population systematic random sampling was employed. A total of 201 respondents were used in the study. Consequently, to accomplish the objectives, both primary and secondary data sources were used. The primary data were collected via questionnaires, interviews, and field observations. Whereas the secondary data were extracted from different published and unpublished materials. The findings of the study revealed that the current municipal solid waste management service in the sub-city is provided below the required quality or has a poor status in terms of usage of containers and its spatial coverage. According to the survey results, lack of institutional coordination among urban planners, the place of skip points were highly exposed to health threat, lack of standard household waste storage bins for the purpose of segregation of waste for each type at household level, lack of awareness raising and community participation priority for locating a skip point, and very weak enforcement of rules and regulation, standards and proclamation are some of the problems that account for poor municipal solid waste management service delivery in the sub-city. Finally, the study mainly suggest that, such measures alleviate the problems of municipal solid waste management: by creating driving motives into the community to use integrated sustainable solid waste management strategies by promoting public-private partnership, and creating effective institutional coordination with urban planner consultants in the area of municipal solid waste management in general and skip point location in particular.

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