Chain

An entity that produces & supplies primary or intermediate raw materials to convert into a finished or semi-finished product.

An entity that transforms two secondary raw materials or combines two secondary raw materials to create a new product

An entity that transforms raw material into finished good for sale or other use including intermediate processes that involve production or finishing or semi-manufactured goods

An entity who uses or modifies packaging materials in the production or formation of packaging.

An entity that fills empty packaging with their products before being placed in the market

An entity that introduces a packaged product into the market from a jurisdiction outside Uganda boundaries

Distributors, food outlets & retailers of packaged goods. All sizes of retailers are included from shopping malls to kiosks.

Both formal and informal companies engaged in the collection and transportation of waste in single or separate streams from waste at formal or informal disposal points or from the environment. (Waste Pickers are not included in this definition however will need to be considered in future to support with subsidy)

Companies engaged in the sorting of waste into separate material fractions for sending downstream to recycling, composting, incineration or landfill companies.

Companies engaged in the reprocessing of sorted post-consumer material waste into a form that can be used by a convertor to manufacture either a different product (i.e., down cycling) or back into the same application from which the waste came (i.e., Circular recycling).