Takataka Plastics

Transforming waste, empowering communities
2021 SEED Low Carbon Award Waste Management Gulu, Uganda

Takataka Plastics collects plastic waste and uses locally produced machines to shred, melt, and mold these materials into saleable products. The enterprise currently produces wall tiles, face shields, and coasters. Locally fabricated, the machines used are cheaper than importing equipment and easily maintained and repaired.

The enterprise designed a small-scale, manually operated machine model which helps create many jobs for unskilled, street-connected youth. This model also enables low-cost scalability.

Eco-Inclusive Impacts
Takataka employs trauma survivors and promotes tangible healing through meaningful work and a supportive workplace community. They reduce environmental and health hazards in places where waste is burned or littered.
  • Providing decent job opportunity to youth who live and work on the streets, the group vulnerable to child trafficking and violence
  • Providing early intervention, basic life skills, and counselling for those who have experienced trauma, exploitation, and human trafficking
  • Providing a recycling service that did not exist
  • Reducing environmental and health hazards in places where waste is burned or littered
  • Recycled over 1,000 kg of plastic waste in 2020; preventing nearly 20 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere each month
  • Creating income opportunities for marginalised and vulnerable groups
  • When at full operation in Gulu, the enterprise estimates a gross profit of $2.17 per square meter of wall tiles produced and an annual gross profit of $33,000

 

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Partners

This enterprise is supported through its partnerships with various stakeholders, ranging from national and international organisations, investors, research institutes, suppliers, governmental bodies, NGOs, other social and environmental enterprises and more.

CEED Uganda helps in sensitising members of the community about sustainable waste management. Takataka Plastics also collaborated on an innovation lab for youth in environmental sustainability start-ups.

Takataka Plastics and Gulu University work closely together on research and development of both equipment and products.

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