Plastic Polluters Reports

Brand Audit 2021

"A People's Effort to hold Corporate Polluters Accountable"

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https://endplasticpollutionow.blogspot.com/p/brand-audit-2021_7.html 

This year's End Plastic Pollution in partnership with Break Free From Plastic conducted this brand audit on September 6th, 2021 at the Masese Landing Site on the shores of Lake Victoria in Jinja City.

469 items were sorted from the cleaned-up waste by 24 volunteers. 

A total of 47 brands were identified belonging to 32 parent companies. 

By product types, Food packaging more sodas and water were 418 items making up 49.0% of the entire waste collected. Personal care products were 50 items making 11.0% of the total collection. 

By Material type (PET, HDPE, O, LDPE, PP, PVC), PET items like plastic bottles were 228 items making 49.0% and HDPE items were 129 making up 102 items making 22.0% of the total sampled items. 

Brand Audit 2020

Download 2020 Report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rNIndhwI6t-IjNRzj_UK5yoToqGGA9x8/view?usp=sharing

There is plastic pollution in Uganda, just like the world over and despite the pandemic, this year has seen an increase. From Kampala, Kiboga to Fort Portal plastics can be seen littered everywhere in our communities. It is time we double the effort to combat the plastic pollution crisis by ensuring effective corporate intervention from companies that produce plastics.

In Uganda, plastic pollution is no being addressed with to make serious progress on solving it. Many companies have no sustainability programs but are busy designing and launching new products. It will take too long to adapt their entire brand chains to the programs, when put in place. Others like multinationals with this capacity and already have sustainability programs are not willing to do this across their entire business operations. Let this report help inform you about what is happening and what can we do? Individual action and “weak” government controls are not enough but change in perspective within the perspective on taking responsibility towards the environmental impact is important.

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