Plastic Waste Collection

Reducing plastic waste and creating employment opportunties in Kampala...

On 23rd June 2010, Living Earth Uganda launched a new urban plastic waste project in Kampala. The project - Improved Environmental Conditions in Informal Urban Settlements through plastic waste collection and recycling in Uganda - is the result of a public-private partnership between Unilever, Living Earth Uganda and DED and is funded by Unilever and DED.

This project builds upon work carried out under Living Earth Uganda's Enhancing Plastic Waste Collection in Kampala District project carried out in 2009 and the Urban Livelihoods Project, carried out between 2004 and 2008.

Specifically the project seeks to:

Sensitise the community about sustainable waste plastic management,
Create sustainable plastic waste collection business opportunities for the identified communities,
Increase the quantity of plastic waste collected by and from the community,
Ensure sustainable income generation for the plastic collectors,
Involve local governments and local councils in urban waste management and environmental clean-up.

Plastics that have accumulated near a stream

Swithern Tumwine, Director of LEU, explaining different types of plastic waste

Read the project's first progress report (July 2010) here...

This project is part of Living Earth Uganda's larger Waste to Wealth programme; an EC funded programme which aims to build the capacity of local entrepreneurs and micro-enterprises to work in partnership with local authorities to manage household waste and to profit from recycling, re-use and processing

Find out more about the Waste to Wealth project here...

For further information on the project please contact Living Earth Uganda.