Waste Sorting Campaign in fighting Climate Change.

Whenever I read articles saying the poor people are always affected most by the impacts of climate change, I tell myself that I did not want to be part of those poor people, & I need to act now. I took an online course (From Climate Science to Action) to know more about the hard terms involved in climate change.

My passion to join other people in fighting climate change and contributing to a cleaner and healthier world started after my University degree in Computer Science. I was stressed by the increasing careless garbage dumping methods. People negligently dump in gardens, by the road sides and into ditches during rainy days. The drainage systems get clogged leading to more flooding in the area thus affecting the poor who settle in wetlands.

After my online course on turning down the heat, I embarked on turning waste to money through this campaign. So I thought to myself, “why stay poor when I can do something about the readily available garbage raw materials".

That was when I started a waste sorting campaign; an awareness and educational program where we move from home to home creating climate change awareness and sensitizing people to compost their garden trimmings and kitchen scraps, to keep stuff out of landfills and to separate paper, plastic, metal and glass. It is a clean method for waste disposal that encourages sorting the organic from inorganic waste in two separate trash cans or in two big polythene bags and also helps in creating clean energy solutions.

This campaign is intended to encourage people to aggregate raw materials from waste and to take up the new technologies like the use of briquettes rather than cutting down trees for charcoal thus contributing to fighting climate change and having a cleaner and climate smart world. This is an income generating project because your raw materials are readily available from your house. “why not make this money?”

However, I am looking for support in training more communities how to add value after they have sorted it out.I also need technical capacity to make clean energy solutions out of the garbage. I hope other initiativescan join me in spreading the all-community member participation waste management campaign and thus attaining a big multiplier effect as other parts of the country participate.

I will be glad to receive support in opening up a website or blog and an awareness training center in Namasuba-Uganda. I look forward to contributing my part in reducing poverty, contributing to health, protecting our ecosystems and fighting climate change by reducing pollution levels.

I hope to inspire people, change people's perceptions on garbage and create change.

How to Get Involved

Anyone and everyone is welcome to get involved in this campaign. If you have passion for creating change through managing waste, please join me. The world is already facing climate change challenges but if we can manage our garbage, we are contributing a part in fighting a globally warm world. Let us keep our temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius.