Distributing a questionnaire to randomly sampled households in Kigali, Rwanda. The research did not seek to generalize the entire population: it looked at the case of Kigali city.

This research study was undertaken as a capstone project for the Global Livingston Institute. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that are associated with plastic recycling in Kabale, Uganda, to enable the client to make changes to increase collection rates.

Industry in Uganda consumes up to 600 metric tons of plastic waste a day and only about 6% of that waste is collected (Planet Buyback, 2021).