Coca cola beverages Uganda has signed a four year MOU with a local Environment NGO, Centre for peace and conflict mitigation (CEPCOM) aimed at seeing the NGO collect plastic bottles for recycling.
CEPCOM
located in Seguku is currently
collecting used plastic bottles, sorts them for sell to plastic recycling
companies as a way of protecting the environment from degradation.
Speaking at
the signing ceremony, the public affairs manager coca cola bottling company
Uganda, Simon Kaheru sighted the
importance food and beverage packaging has to Ugandans, yet it pauses a
packaging problem to the country and the environment, hence the reason they are
partnering with CEPCOM to save the environment.
However,
executive director, CEPCOM, Kuteesa
Stephen expressed his excitement and pledged his commitment to a more
sustainable and climate conscious Uganda through this initiative.
He reminds Ugandans
to give back to the environment what it gives them by conserving the
environment jealously.
Kuteesa
notes the continued fast rate of environmental degradation creating worries of
where the next generations will live if the current generation is wasting the
environment.
He now urges communities to look at garbage as an economic path than waste.
CEPCOM buys
a kilogram of used plastic bottles at UGX.300 and sells it to the recycling
industry at UGX.900 after cleaning and sorting.
Ugandan
disposes off over 600 tons of plastics in the environment but only 50% of this
is collected for recycling.
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