Ridding Kampala of plastic waste, while providing toilet access to Kampala’s urban poor— inside the Ruparelia Foundation’s slums eco-toilet project

They say two wrongs don’t make a right, but for the Ruparelia Foundation, the charity arm of the Ruparelia Group, two of Kampala’s biggest environmental and sanitation problems—plastic waste and poor toilet access—might have created an opportunity to change lives. Conservative estimates say that at least 600 tonnes of plastics are consumed daily in Uganda, and half of this is in Kampala, Uganda’s capital city. It is also believed that more than half of the used plastics in the city are disposed of irresponsibly. In a city where at least 51% of plastic garbage is uncollected, this plastic waste is…