Plastic pollution and waste in Arua City clogs drains, causes flooding, harms health, and degrades the environment. Arua City Action to Reduce Urban Plastic Pollution is a 6-month initiative benefiting 50,000 residents. Through collection points, youth and women recycling enterprises, citywide clean-ups, and awareness campaigns, the project reduces plastic waste, improves sanitation, creates livelihoods, and builds a cleaner, healthier city. WAF is a member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition.
Arua City, home to about 385,000 residents, faces severe plastic pollution and waste management, with waste clogging drains, causing flooding, contaminating water, and harming public health. Improper disposal of plastics other wastes in markets, streets, and households degrades the environment, threatens livelihoods, and overwhelms municipal waste systems, putting tens of thousands of residents at risk.
The project tackles Arua City's plastic pollution and other waste through collection points in busy areas, recycling by youth and women groups, citywide clean-ups, and awareness campaigns via radio, schools, and social media. Working with the city council to enforce ordinances and strengthen waste systems, it reduces plastic leakage, improves sanitation, creates livelihoods, and benefits 385,000 residents, fostering a cleaner, healthier, and sustainable city.
By addressing plastic pollution in Arua City, this project will solve problems of clogged drains, flooding, environmental degradation, and public health risks caused by improper plastic and waste disposal. Through community collection points, education, recycling enterprises, clean-ups, awareness campaigns, and strengthened municipal waste systems, the initiative will benefit 385,000 residents, creating a cleaner, healthier, and more resilient urban environment for the long term.
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