Kayunga District has an agro-based revenue budget, where the accumulating waste plastic bottles have led to a decline in the income per capital due to the worsening suffocation rate of the soils by waste plastic bottles. Also, water channels are being blocked while water bodies are being polluted by these carelessly disposed waste plastic bottles. The Improper waste plastics disposal and absence of monetary value for the used waste plastic bottles have worsened the environmental crisis.

This crisis is more severe in urban and peri-urban centers, which is a result of the poor societal attitude towards the environment and lack of consciousness of our surroundings.  The Ugandan government way back tried to ban the use of plastics. It was done but with futility.

The most important issue is to come up with a sustainably profitable approach like the BUVAD approach of Re-using the waste plastic bottles to build rainwater harvesting tanks in affordable capacities to user communities. It’s upon these findings that BUVAD, after a study of the area problems together with the community and local council leadership, mobilized to come up with mitigative approaches to the outstanding health and environmental problems.

Re-using waste plastic bottles to construct affordable structures like; houses, pit latrines, and rainwater harvesting tanks is an innovative approach aimed at helping Ugandans eliminate the environmental hazard of accumulating carelessly littered waste plastic bottles without burning to minimize on carbon emissions and raise environmental awareness, while using the waste plastic bottles profitably to harvest rainwater in communities, substituting mud bricks that require cutting trees to bake them. This also being part of the objective of the ministry of water and environment as seen in the National Climate Change policy.

Furthering this innovative technology of affordable waste plastic bottle bricks structures like rainwater harvesting tanks, toilets, and houses construction, BUVAD conducts training for parents of applicant primary schools as participants followed by the creation of trainees’ community chains – bottle brick construction cooperatives targeting the construction of rainwater harvesting tanks, toilets and houses at their households using waste plastic bottles as bricks. The approach is that with BUVAD funding towards material subsidy the created community chains bottle brick construction cooperatives group/s go constructing for each member in a sequence.

This approach has been most successful with rainwater harvesting tanks as the need for water and pressure on water sources is very big!!