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Awards, media features, and what's happening at our collection yard and workshop.

Arther Lule pitching Luther Plastics at the Uganda Climate Innovation Challenge 2026 Final Pitch Event

Award · 30 October 2026

2nd place at the Uganda Climate Innovation Challenge 2026

Luther Plastics placed 2nd at the UCIC 2026 Final Pitch Event at Silver Springs Hotel, Bugolobi. We came through the UCIC Top 50 Business Incubation Programme and were one of 13 finalists pitching to judges, investors and climate stakeholders.

The grant goes into production: repairing our sheet-press machine, increasing output, and sourcing more plastic waste from landfills, which creates more opportunities for the waste collectors we work with.

The programme is run by Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) Uganda and Youth Climate Council Uganda.

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Award · 28 October 2026

1st Runner-Up at the MTN and WWF PachiPanda Innovation Challenge 2026

Out of 320 applicants, Luther Plastics made the Top 15 for the three-day bootcamp, then finished 1st Runner-Up at the finale. Arther Lule pitched alongside co-founder Muyama Shaima Kemigisha.

We collect plastic waste in Wakiso and press it into durable boards that become furniture for homes and schools. Plastic that would have ended up in a drainage channel or an open fire becomes a table in someone's living room.

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Arther Lule and co-founder Muyama Shaima Kemigisha pitching on stage at the PachiPanda Innovation Challenge 2026 finale

In the Media

See our work on screen

StartHub Africa

Inside our recycled furniture fabrication centre

NTV

Our interview with NTV

At the Collection Yard

Where plastic waste becomes flakes

Jerrycans, drums and containers come in, get sorted by type and colour, and go through the shredder as HDPE flakes, the raw material for every board we press.

Sacks of collected plastic jerrycans at the Luther Plastics collection yard

Collect

Collected jerrycans, bagged and stacked

Arther Lule sorting plastic jerrycans at the collection yard

Sort

Sorting by type and colour

Arther Lule with a plastic drum among collected waste at the yard

Sort

Drums and containers in the yard

Feeding cut plastic jerrycans into the shredder

Shred

Feeding the shredder

Shovelling freshly shredded HDPE flakes

Shred

Fresh flakes off the shredder

Handful of yellow recycled HDPE flakes over a full sack

Flakes

Bagged HDPE flakes

Clip

A sack of finished flakes

Luther Plastics branded safety vest at work in the yard

Yard

On the job at the yard

From the Workshop

Recent pieces off the press

Stools, side tables and boards with recycled plastic tops, some on bases supported by recycled plastic, each with a unique finish chosen by the customer.

A range of recycled plastic stools and side tables with gold and black metal frames

Stools & Side Tables

A batch in customer-chosen finishes

Round and square side tables with dark custom-finished tops

Side Tables

Round and square side tables

Pair of square side tables with speckled recycled plastic tops

Side Tables

Square tables with speckled tops

Round multicolour speckled recycled plastic stool top

Stool Top

Multicolour speckled stool top

Square black and white speckled recycled plastic board

Board

Black and white speckled board

The Luther Plastics crew assembling stools and side tables outside the workshop

Manufacture

Assembly outside the workshop

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Behind the Scenes

The crew and the meetings that keep production moving

The Luther Plastics crew standing outside the workshop in safety vests

Team

The crew outside the workshop

Team meeting around a desk in the Luther Plastics workshop office

Meetings

Planning at the workshop office

Work with an award-winning recycler

Furniture for schools and homes, recycled HDPE sheet, and sorted flakes, made from plastic waste collected here in Uganda.

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