By Reagan Kandole, Dalton Otim, Anthony Kadoma and Vanessa Duclos
The proliferation of plastics globally is now a major challenge, especially over the last two decades. Worldwide, we are producing over 300 million tons of plastic each year, 50% of which is for single use purposes. More than 8 million tons is dumped into the ocean yearly, becoming a big environmental issue and threat to our ecosystems and biodiversity. Kampala city, Uganda, generates 750 tons of waste a day of which half is collected and sent to the dumpsites. The other half, mainly plastics and polythene, is irresponsibly disposed and finding its way from our communities and streets, to drainage channels, to rivers, lakes, and wetlands.
This problem is even more prominent in the urban slum dwellings. School setting is one of the best platforms for promoting proper solid waste management through education, skills workshops, and fun activities outside classrooms, hence enhancing teamwork. By sensitizing the children, behavior changes can be fostered around proper waste management.
ECOaction, an SFA Network NGO partner, together with Kampala City Council Authority, AEIF Alumni 2019 and five primary schools in Kampala City (Namirembe Infants School; Bat Valley Primary School; Kawempe Muslim School; St Ponsiano Kyamula School and Luzira Church of Uganda School) received funding from the Ugandan US Embassy to implement the “Clean Air Project” in 2020.
The following photo essay takes you through the launch event, which took place on March 6th 2020.
I am passionate about the current situation under lock down but I do appreciated the effort of the US embassy.
However I have developed a prototype of converting wastes into energy and named it 👉waste energy solution’s Uganda (WESU). However I as a person with ideas I lack some logistically support and rubbish /wastes is as abundant as nothing else and indeed I would wish to be reached by the embassy and having a Lee way ahead as we are seeing some villages with abundant rubbish but with no power so converting their own wastes into power would be of great importance and events in removing methane gas and corbondioxide ,and corbonmonoxide gases which are a threat to global warming .
I remained open to share my ideas if only protected because I have lost many of my such ideas to many people who hijack me each time .
I feel u can protect my idea and seek my knowledge if u feel I can be of help.
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