Thread by @althecat

A short thread on Uganda 🇺🇬 whose pavilion I have had the pleasure of dropping into a couple of times over the past two days. I attended a recording session with three speakers on the subject of the plastics waste treaty with three youth speakers. Each gave impassioned speeches on the subject from different perspectives. 1/6

2/6 ^^ the first speaker addressed the issue from an overview of the treaty perspective what it is for and why it is needed. The plastics packaging industry which is an offshoot of the Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex causes a lot of issues in terms of contributing to the waste stream in developing nations, and unfortunately many plastics contain a lot of toxic chemicals & are not recyclable.

3/6 Correction: There were actually four speakers. The first above was Mohammed from Egypt. Next up was Yobel from Indonesia 🇮🇩 who also addressed the issue from a policy / treaty perspective.

4/6 Next up was a young woman Carona Michelle Carol who works on the frontline of the community outreach effort in Uganda to address the plastic waste stream from with people who collect the plastic waste and earn what sounds like a bare subsistence level of income from doing so.

I found this testimony particularly moving as it describes how unnecessarily toxic waste streams derived from fossil fuels are addressed in an African context.

5/6 Part 2 of Carona Michelle Carol’s description of her work.

6/6 And Finally we have Isaac, also from Uganda 🇺🇬 whose involvement in the panel was my reason for being at the event. I met him at #cop27 in Egypt last year where he was seeking a very modest amount of investment to scale up the production of agricultural waste briquettes + cheap cooking stoves and food drying technology startup social enterprise.

Post Script: This introduction by the speakers preceded the recording session which I think was undertaken for use in social media outputs in support of the Plastics Treaty effort.

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