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Article 23
Foreign Aid in Waste Basket
Tanneries operating in Ethiopia are expected to dismantle their machineries in three years time as they failed to meet environmental standards. However, in recent time, these tanneries have been applauded as they installed Waste Water Treatment Plant ( WWTP) with the help of the United Nation Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO), costing several million birr.
And yet, UNIDO is now qualified for another massive project; perhaps, changing the location of the industry at the expense of the existing tanneries, whose fate is unpredictable. Read more
Article 22
Ethiopian Leather Scum
Value added is an objective concept. But it seems losing its meaning in the Ethiopian leather sector or suffering from some flaws like under invoicing. Besides, the government policy is failing,though it triggers to orchestrate all African Leather Fair. In the mean time, the county’s plan period to attain USD 500 million per year from export of leather is coming to an end, fostering only USD 100 million. Since the sector’s market structure is extremely skewed, the fate of 30 or so tanneries is at risk, although they are enjoying playing in the currency market instead of gg from their productivity. What wenainint wrong? Read more
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Marginalized workers painting skins with toxic chemical to pull out its hair, under lethal working condition.
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rticle 21
Welcome to a dying lake!
Lake Abijata is dying, although the Ministry of Culture and Tourism is boasting that it is the country’s sanctuary for a colony of exciting birds. However, Abijata Soda Ash Enterprise (ASAE) is diligently harvesting sodium carbonate (soda ash), destroying plants, chasing away birds and depleting the volume of water. Read more
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Flamingo
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Article 03
Consumerism: a call for food safety and alcoholic quality
Traditional Areke distillation stoves
Ethiopia is believed to be self-sufficient in alcoholic drinks. No one has heard of its shortage! The source of alcoholic drinks is both traditional and modern sectors. The popular traditional sector includes Areke, Tej, Tella and Borde. Of these, I would like to select Areke as an example to highlight the problem of the traditional sector. One of the striking developments with regard to areke is the mushrooming of wholesalers and distributors of Areke in every corner of Addis Ababa. Read more
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Chat Leaves bundles
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Article 04
The diseconomics of “chat”: Is it a cash crop or is it crashing the fragile Ethiopian economy?
There is a raging controversy among historians in which some argue that ‘chat’ was initially grown in Ethiopia and then introduced into Yemen. Others argue the other way round. Nonetheless, as far as Ethiopian is concerned, chat used to mainly grown in the south- eastern part of the country. Its consumption was also limited to this area as par t of religious rituals.
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Article 17
Putting the Stink on Leather
The rich component of hide and skins is protein, which accounts for about 30 pc of its weight. Protein, possessing a very high nutritional value, warrants proper handling of hide and skins; failing to do so leads to a complete loss of its leather making potential. In the jargon of the leather trade, the damage is known as putrefaction, which accounts for 90 pc of the deterioration seen following the skinning of the animal. It is rampant in countries like Ethiopia
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Leather made of putrefied skin
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Removing of flesh from a skin
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Article 02
The Chemistry of Leather Making
By trial and error men grew more experienced in leather making and found that they could use leather for many purposes, besides foot wear and clothing. A great discovery was that water would keep fresh and cool in leather bag, and this knowledge enabled tribes to wander away from a spring or river bank, carrying their supply with them. This has been claimed that it facilitates the spread of man over the planet earth.
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Article 01
From Wastage to Usage
An Account of Chrome Recovery in Ethiopian Tanning Industry
In Ethiopia, the leather industry is the second biggest export earner. However tanning processes are characterised by lack of waste treatment or recycling procedures. Roughly, Ethiopian tanning industry discharges to the environment every year, at least 56 tonnes of chromium in solution form, and mixed with other organic and inorganic compounds. While chrome recovery has been proven as viable, both economically and environmentally.
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Drying beds, Sagana Tannery, Kenya. An alternative method to chrome recovery; but postponing of environmental pollution, and chrome wastage.
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