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Plastic pollution of Lake Victoria: Is Uganda burdened by waste from neighboring countries?

Tons of plastic bottles plus invasive aquatic weeds from Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania are discharged in the lake through River Kagera, which stretches about 400 kilometers from its source in Burundi before draining into the lake via Uganda.

Plastic bottles at Ecobrix site in Masaka (Photos by Davis Buyondo)
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By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

Why Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania should focus on River Kagera to control transboundary refuse from entering the lake 

MASAKA REGION-UGANDA

A heavy downpour just drenched Kasensero town council in Kyotera, a

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