ENVIRONMENT SWITCH INITIATIVE UGANDA

  What is Waste Management? In simplest terms, waste management is the collection, transportation, and disposal of garbage and other waste products. Every year, landfills in Uganda are filled with so much waste approximately 139.6 million tons of waste. The most significant type of waste that ends up in landfills is food. Aside from economic losses, food waste is also a producer of greenhouse gases. The second-largest type of waste that is found in landfills is plastic. Plastic waste contributes greatly to climate change and poses a critical threat to pollution, biodiversity, and human health. While some types of plastic waste can’t be recycled such as single-use plastic bags and straws, most we toss can actually be recycled or reused. The 5 Rs in Waste Management As sensible dwellers of the Earth, we are responsible for managing our waste sustainably and protecting the environment. We can do this by following the 5 Rs of waste management. Reduce Reducing your waste means that ther...

  GOING GREEN TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT More care for the environment and fully embraced opportunities are key individuals,families, young or old should join in and make real contributions. Our Environment policies clearly identifies how we want to implement our environment objectives and demonstrate a better way of doing things. Your contribution, no matter how small the involvement may be, will give us all a sense of pride knowing that we are all having an input in to a better, safer and cleaner environment and help reduce waste and CO2 emissions. By getting actively involved and positively contributing to the environment through your ideas, skills and passion, we can all agree protecting our future through Real Life Options is certainly a worthy cause. As a company, individuals, families we can potentially save a great deal of natural resourced energy through being mindful about heating and travel and by addressing this shows we understand ...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENT AND POVERTY We live in an unequal world, where the lack of food and other necessities is a symptom of deeper systemic issues. Attempts to solve global environmental challenges must consider the nature and scale of human need around the world. Climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, pollution, and other aspects of global environmental change are not only environmental problems; they are also economic and social ones. From an environmental perspective, both poverty and unsustainable patterns of production and consumption are key drivers of environmental degradation. At the same time, environmental degradation and climate change can drive poverty. While there is no easy solution, poverty and the environment must be addressed together.In some communities environment has really contributed to the gross poverty rates hence dictating the living standards of people. This can be stemmed from the improper handling of the environment or failur...

THE BAD BEHAVIOURS THAT COULD SUFFOCATE NATURE In most of our environments we live in so many things are done which end up affecting the environment. its not that we lack the knowledge about the dangers of such bad behaviors but instead some people are ignorant about them. These bad behaviors are done on a daily basis leaving planet earth in tears because no one seems to be friendly to it. Why would you negligently throw plastic bags and bottles on the ground. After enjoying your drink packaged in either a plastic bag or bottle, the best way to show mother planet earth that your her friend would be disposing off properly that plastic bag or bottle. However almost everyone has failed to grasp or know the dangers of such items to the environment. Scientifically it is proved that a polythene or plastic can   take anywhere from 20 to 500 years to decompose, depending on the material and structure. This is so scary  to mother planet and don't feel that mother pl...

  TECHNOLOGY'S ROLE IN THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT The planet is changing. It’s getting warmer, for example  look what has been happening in the European  part of the world and as this happens, we are changing too. We have to adapt our lifestyles and our habits to reduce carbon in the planet’s atmosphere and prevent runaway climate change that could threaten the ultimate existence of a habitable planet called Earth. In this article, we look at some of the ways technology is helping us to adapt. Because of our high resource lifestyles and global economic structure, it is difficult for us to make the necessary changes needed to help the planet regain health. Thankfully, technology is developing fast, and we are choosing to embrace it. Renewable energy One of the biggest challenges facing the planet in our lifetime is the  changing climate . Although the planet’s climate is known to fluctuate significantly over a period of time, studies show that since the...

  Why is the Environment Important to Human Life?   The environment is a fundamental concept that hold the lives of very many people in society and therefore without it, human life may not exist. We are from the environment, the environment is very important for everyone’s life, because life on earth is possible only from the environment. All human beings, animals, natural plants, trees and plants, weather, climate are all contained within the environment. Environment not only works to maintain balance in the climate and also provides all the things necessary for life. Due to modernization and the influence of technology developments, the importances of the environment have been forgotten hence chocking something that holds most of our lives. Take a look around you and think about how life would be if we did not have such elements that compose the environment for example trees, rivers, mountains and the different kinds of animals.  ...

YOUR DUTY AS A YOUTH TO THE ENVIRONMENT As we saw in the past, there are many more rules, laws, conventions are made for protecting the environment but there is no effective implementation . For this implementation youth play a vital role. Young people constitute a large part of the world's population and young people will have to live longer with the consequences of current environmental decisions than will their elders. Future generations will also be affected by these decisions and the extent to which they have addressed concerns such as the depletion of resources, biodiversity loss, and long-lived radioactive wastes. Young people can play an active role in protecting and improving the environment .   They can change their lifestyle and how it affects the environment. They can make their homes, schools and youth organizations more environmentally friendly by adopting environmentally friendly practices, recycling of different materials as well as preserving resources such as wate...