00:00A Kalabash garden southwest of Kampala.
00:11The atmosphere here is almost magical.
00:15Farmer Godfrey Kigoya sells the gourds as a natural alternative to plastic containers
00:21and bottles.
00:22The Rwizi River is just one example of how plastic pollutes the environment and threatens
00:28biodiversity.
00:29More and more people are realizing that plastic waste is a huge problem.
00:35This is now an opportunity.
00:36This is a new market.
00:37This is something new on market.
00:40This one has added on our income.
00:43After harvesting, the gourds are dried and then hollowed out.
00:50It's important to farmer Kigoya that nothing goes to waste.
00:56What comes out as a waste are the seeds that come from inside.
01:00Now that's feed for the pigs.
01:02That can produce some good fibers and some good vitamins for the pigs.
01:08So they can also get some good feed.
01:11That's now recycling the wastes.
01:14So you see now there is nothing we can waste.
01:17Kalabash are traditionally used as a vessel for storing dairy products and other things.
01:22Waste vendor Christine Nampanga has seen an increase in sales.
01:28There's a lot of demand for these natural products, and so I've started growing them
01:32myself.
01:35Kalabash fan Martin Ogwal says the best thing is that these containers are biodegradable.
01:41It has no side effect on the environment.
01:44When you dispose it, it is a manure.
01:47But compared to the bottles, the plastic bottles that we pick water and use out of it, you
01:52go through and it becomes a problem to the environment.
01:56Uganda still produces some 600 tons of plastic waste every day, and just 6 percent of it
02:03is collected.
02:04Godfrey Kigoya hopes his Kalabash can be part of a much-needed change.
02:10For you there, which one of the two is better, going Greece or going Greece?
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