Africa's largest lake, Victoria, is choking on plastic waste
Raluca Maniță
Lake Victoria, the world's second-largest freshwater lake by surface area, supports more than 47 million people across Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. KAMPALA: On the shimmering waters of Lake Victoria, a floating island made from waste drifts gently near the shores of Luzira, a suburb of Uganda’s capital Kampala. The patchwork raft – a mosaic of discarded plastics intertwined with creeping plants and encircled by wooden fencing – is more than an eye-catching oddity; it is a living experiment in
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