When Paige started grad school at UC Berkeley in Fall 2017, she wanted to work on problems that were affecting her Ugandan friends, so she started researching plastic waste. She worked with Gulu University students to conduct an assessment of plastic waste in Gulu and interview 200+ people. Paige also met Peter who was working on plastic waste education through an organization he started called AfriGreen Sustain. They partnered together to form Takataka Plastics, and in January 2020, they opened a small plastic collection center, hired three staff, built prototype machines, and received Takataka’s first order. Now, Takataka Plastics can’t produce enough to keep up with the demand for our wall tiles, so we’re working on scaling up operations in Gulu City to make more products and create more jobs and a cleaner, healthier environment.