Waste Plant

BRIEF CONCEPT ON PLASTIC WASTE MANAGEMENT

PREAMBLE

Alliance Water Solutions (AWASO) is managing solid waste in Jinja city in Busoga region and Lira City in Northern Uganda under a polluter pay system. This system empowers polluters to pay for their waste and mandates service providers to safely transport and dispose it in a gazzated place regulated by the council.

The company currently serves 1,800 clientele found at household level, factories, schools, hotels, shops, markets, churches, hospitals and betting halls among others. We collect and transport unsorted solid waste about 7 tonnes everyday which is a burden to the current dumping sites. It’s against this background that AWASO is undertaking waste sorting focusing on plastic waste

OBJECTIVE

To manage a 50 Tonnage plastic waste business off the environment every month in Jinja city, Busoga region

STRATEGY

  1. Recruit and Train personnel in waste management handling
  2. Sensitise waste generators on sorting
  3. Develop transportation plans for sorted waste
  4. Launch centres for buying plastic waste
  5. Establish temporary storage sites for plastic waste
  6. Identify available markets for plastic waste
  7. Initiate plastic recycle ventures

FINANCES

  • We Seek $7,000 as capital investment to improve plastic Waste Business