The Environmental Impact of the Sugar Industry Waste in Sudan

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Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of Sudanese sugar manufacture waste on the communities surrounding the industries. The study employed across-sectional survey approach comprising of 311 respondents living around factories areas. The selected sugar industries included; Kenana, Guneid, Halfa, Sinnar, Assalaya and White-Nile. Data were analysed by using SPSS version 19; the descriptive statistics, nonparametric statistics and logistic regression were employed. The results showed that the wastewater discharge has a significant (P < 0.05) effect on the community health. The respondents indicated that the waste creates suitable environment for the reproduction of parasites, off-odor development and finally contaminates the drinking water. The multinomial logistic regression model showed that the wastewater (i.e. creates off-odor and mosquito) have significant (P < 0.05) influences on causing health risks (i.e. malaria) to the people residing around the sugar factories areas. The study was also revealed that the lack of the sugar industry wastewater management has significantly affected the crop and animal production. The suspending particles and bagasse fly were found significantly (P < 0.05) caused high rate of occurrence of eye and respiratory systems diseases in the region. The health services provided by the industries were found significantly (P < 0.05) affected the community satisfaction. It is therefore, the study designed a framework for enhance handling the industrial waste to be adopted by the Sudanese sugar industries decision makers. The framework focused on decreasing the impact of waste to the lowest level through sufficient improvement of the management strategies.

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