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Effect of Pollution on Soil Quality of Regular Urban Waste Dumpsite in the Southeast Ethiopia

Received: 24 August 2022     Accepted: 20 September 2022     Published: 18 October 2022
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Different settlers were producing diverse quantities of trashes which significantly shake the surroundings in direct and indirect way with their polluted nature over the soil property worsening. Consequently, this study was intended to investigate the public discarded materials impact on soil features in southeast Ethiopia. Prior to collecting soil samples, contact with the official and local communities as well as negotiations were done in instruction to obtain facts around the deteriorating scheme besides its influence. From a dry waste disposal site, a composite of soil sample would be taken from horizontal (0m or onsite, 20m or offsite), vertical (0-30cm, 30-60cm), and replication at a dry urban waste disposal sites. A silhouette depth was excavated on apiece sites plus tasters were composed of pits of 0-30cm as well as 30-60cm. Mechanical examination results has shown that all samples at different horizons entirely were nonsignificant in bulk density at the surface and subsurface of onsite and offsite and soil moisture at the offsite. Moreover, bulk density, cadmium and Nickel are excess in both onsite and offsite as well as at the surface and subsurface of onsite and offsite, respectively. As a summary, the analysis output indicated as urban removal takes a poisonousness outcome on the soil properties. Therefore, intensive caring for the polluted soils is necessary to regulator and inhibit the hazards from these soils. Also, the management was a requisite to destabilize the reason of leftover and handling the discarded using phytoremediation as well as bioremediation system.

Published in International Journal of Environmental Chemistry (Volume 6, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijec.20220602.13
Page(s) 51-58
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Solid Waste, Physicochemical Properties, Soil Quality

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  • Department of Soil Resource and Watershed Management, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Arsi University, Asella, Ethiopia

  • Department of Natural Resource Management, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Arsi University, Asella, Ethiopia

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