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Due to the lack of appropriate health and environmental quality control, industries are unregulated in many African countries. Environmental management in relation to industries has been relegated to the background. Due to the priority that has been given to economic development by these countries emphasis on clean production methods have been sidelined (UN 1993:50). In Ethiopia, the release of effluents by factories has until recently not been regulated. However, industries continue to release pollutants into the natural environment without any treatment, with serious health and social effects on those exposed to it.
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Aberra, E. (2000). Air Pollution In Addis Ababa. In: Salih, M.A.M. (eds) Local Environmental Change and Society in Africa. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2103-5_8
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