Under evaluation
Uganda Plastic Waste Recovery Infrastructure & Recycling Data (2026)
Rapid urbanisation around the Lake Victoria basin with limited downstream processing capacity and high sachet packaging use.
Model updated 2026
Country totals across profiled cities
- Cities profiled
- 1Urban agglomerations modelled in this directory
- Population covered
- 3.6million
- Unmanaged plastic
- 135t / day
- Informal collectors
- 3,000Estimated workforce already handling this material
Policy context: Kaveera (polythene) restrictions in force with partial enforcement; national plastics action plan under development.
City profiles
| City | Population | Unmanaged plastic (t/day) | PET (t/day) | LDPE film (t/day) | Hub target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kampala | 3.65M | 135.1 | 44.6 | 43.2 | 146 |
Methodology
How these figures are produced
- Urban population from national statistics offices and UN-Habitat urban agglomeration estimates.
- Municipal solid waste per capita from World Bank What a Waste 2.0 income-band and country figures.
- Plastic share of the waste stream from national waste characterisation studies where available, otherwise the regional band (8–13%).
- Unmanaged share from UNEP and OECD mismanaged-waste ratios for the country's collection coverage.
- Polymer split from published characterisation of East and North African urban packaging streams.
- Hub targets model one community aggregation point per ~25,000 residents; collector counts follow published informal-sector surveys.
These are transparent desk estimates, not field measurements. AfriloopX is pre-pilot: any figure will be replaced with primary, weighbridge-verified data once collection operates.
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