US EditionUganda: Banking On a Plastic-Free Future Through Collective Action
- On June 5, 2025, World Environment Day focused globally on the theme 'Beat Plastic Pollution' to address the plastic waste crisis.
- The event followed growing concerns about plastic pollution's multifaceted impacts on health and ecosystems, prompting governments, including Uganda's, to adopt circular economy policies.
- Centenary Bank in Uganda leads sustainability efforts by planning to plant over 40,000 trees in 2025 and promoting solid waste monitoring, recycling, and community engagement.
- Pick n Pay achieved a significant environmental milestone by collecting more than 1.1 million recyclable plastic and packaging items through 39 Reverse Vending Machines, preventing approximately 1,200 tonnes of CO2e emissions and providing rewards to participating customers.
- These initiatives illustrate a global push for systemic change involving governments, financial institutions, and individuals to combat plastic pollution and safeguard environmental and human health.
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Uganda: Banking On a Plastic-Free Future Through Collective Action
[Independent (Kampala)] This year's theme for World Environment Day 2025 - "Beat Plastic Pollution" is a call for collective action to tackle plastic pollution. It is a rallying cry for individuals, organizations, industries, and governments to make decisive, sustainable choices that reverse the damage caused by plastic overuse.
Pick n Pay celebrates major environmental milestone
To mark World Environment Day 2025 on Thursday, 5 June and this year’s theme of ‘Ending Plastic Pollution’, Pick n Pay is celebrating a major environmental milestone. Its Reverse Vending Machines (RVM) customer recycling initiative has diverted over 1.1 million plastic and packaging recyclable items from landfill. The milestone marks a significant win in Pick n Pay’s long-term commitment to supporting circular economies and empowering everyday s…
Surging plastic pollution poses environmental crisis
World Environment Day is observed globally on June 5, with this year's theme, "Beat Plastic Pollution," drawing attention to the growing crisis of plastic waste. Environmental experts have warned that without immediate intervention, the consequences of unchecked pollution could be catastrophic for both human health and the ecosystem. While speaking to The Express Tribune, Dr Amir Alamgir, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the Unive…
Emmanuel Otuko: Banking on a plastic-free future through collective action
This year’s theme for World Environment Day 2025 – “Beat Plastic Pollution” is a call for collective action to tackle plastic pollution. It is a rallying cry for individuals, organisations, industries, and governments to make decisive, sustainable choices that reverse the damage caused by plastic overuse. Governments all over the world, with no exception of Uganda, are taking steps to integrate circular economy approaches to reduce plastic waste…
World Environment Day 2025: Let’s Pledge to Eliminate the Poison of Plastic
Lagatar24 Desk Every year, June 5 is celebrated as World Environment Day — not just as a symbolic occasion, but as a global call to action to protect our planet. This year’s theme is “Beat Plastic Pollution”, highlighting one of the most urgent environmental crises we face today. A Global Movement Since 1973 Since its inception in 1973, World Environment Day has grown into the largest global platform for environmental outreach, engaging millions…
Choking on plastic: Pollution threatens water, health in Juba - Radio Tamazuj
Plastic is everywhere — in the streets, clogging drains, floating in the Nile, and now, many fear, in food and water. As South Sudan marks World Environment Day under the theme “Beat Plastic Pollution,” the scale of the country’s plastic waste crisis has become impossible to ignore. World Environment Day is celebrated annually on 5 June and encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment. In the crowded Juba suburb of Gudel…
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