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Growing Eco Brixs to Recycle more plastic and empower more people in 2025 🚀

Andy Teale

Two people sorting recycling near a pile of plastic bottles, with trees and a fence in the background. One smiles, wearing a dark shirt.

Eco Brixs finished on a real high last year, recycling 4 times more plastic in 2024 than the previous year. By the end of December, we'd recycled 1164 tonnes of plastic waste.


The more we recycle, the more people we can empower with job opportunities as we pay for every kilogram of plastic brought to us. This allowed us to pay over $240,000 to local people in exchange for plastic in 2024.


In 2025, we’re aiming to expand this impact further. We want to raise the price we pay for plastic, helping our current Plastic Collectors to earn more for their work and climb the socio-economic ladder.


We also want to expand geographically to reach more people and help more communities to tackle plastic pollution and unemployment.


In 2024, we began our expansion across Southern Uganda, building sustainable plastic recycling services for the first time across Kalangala, Mbarara and Nakivale Refugee Settlement. We'll continue these projects in 2025, and also aim to fundraise to expand to Kable and Fort Portal in Western Uganda.


We’re hoping this year will be another successful year for Eco Brixs. Over the coming months we’ll share stories from the community, photos, and impact figures about the change we’re creating across Uganda. 


We hope you'll follow our progress. Together, let’s see how much plastic we can recycle in 2025! 🙌🏿


 

MARGRETE'S STORY: USING PLASTIC TO SAVE FOR A RAINY DAY


A person stands beside a red hanging scale measuring plastic bottles in a net. Tree, wire fence, and a building with blue chairs in background.
Margrete has collected plastic with Eco Brixs since 2020. Since then, the income has helped her to support her family, repair her home, and build savings

Margrete has been collecting plastic with Eco Brixs for over 4 years and lives a few miles away from our main Recycling Factory in Masaka City.


Over this time, she’s used the income she’s earned from plastic collection to support her grandchildren, fund necessities, and repair her home after the heavy rains. This income has been crucial with farming work in Uganda becoming more unreliable due to Climate Change.


Margrete has also been inspiring other women to save their money by leading a group called “Akwata Empola Women’s Sacco”, which aims to empower women and help them become financially dependent. 


You can read her full story here.


 

WE'RE WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY TO CREATE IMPACT:


Green plastic bottles in a sack labeled "Impact in December: 116 Tonnes of Plastic Waste Recycled." Eco Brixs logo in the corner.

Worker in green shirt collects plastic near a fence; text reads "Impact in December" and "$22,848 Paid to the Community for Plastic," EcoBrixs logo.

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