MINISTER INSPECTS,LAUDS KAVEERA RECYCLING INDUSTRIES.
By media desk
Minister of trade,industry and cooperatives,Ameria Kyambadde has hailed chores of Kaveera recycling industries saying it’s good to tame kaveera from damaging the environment.
She however expressed worry over how there was scanty information about Kaveera industries,the useful products and the recycling status invested in Uganda.
Kyambadde along with tecnocrats from the line ministry took time on tuesday to inspect kaveera recyclers and part of the industrial empire.
The industries inspected included the state of the art Recycling machinery installed at Pipeline desighn and foam industries Luzira, Luuka plastics kawempe and Genetex industries.
Kyambadde advised industrialists through their umbrella association UPMRA to escalate publicity of their activities in the media. “Today I decided to come and see what happens with these industries and am amazed of the collection of kaveera and recycling status,’ she emphasised.
Kyambadde advised the investors to put up collection centers so that most of kaveera brought back to recycling industrial to be tamed from environment.
She looks at recycling as the best solution ground work
She was equally fascinated by a wide range of products produced from Kaveera recycled pellets. The products included egg trays, electricity conduit pipes, cups, plates, nursery bed tubes, water tanks, waste containers and among others.
Kyambadde encouraged industrialists to start regional collection centers after realising that majority Ugandans were treating kaveera as a money generation Avenue. Investors reported to the minister how their industry was slowly falling to competition and propaganda.”All paper bags distributed are more harmful to environment since they are manufactured from trees.
The public relations UPMRA,Moses Ategeka Brown said fronting paper bags meant automatic destruction of forests
He also accused law implementers of pushing wrong substitutes into supermarkets, he says the pink paper bags in supermarkets is non recyclable and made out of bio oil raw materials the same raw materials that makes kaveera shopping bags.
The team requested the minister to investigate and pass the rightful information to the president and concerned ministries.
Mr Lawrence Lugwana told the minister a committement to pursuing responsible littering and recollection of used buveera from environment. “We have so far distributed over 500 waste bins with help of KCCA and we shall continue upcountry.” Lugwana stated.
Lugwana requested the minister to aid on processes leading to withdrawal of kaveera ban so that more investments are attracted on board.
Tags: Kampala, Kaveera, MINISTER, POLYTHENES, WAKISO
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