Help fight poverty, pollution and climate change
WasteAid shares waste management and recycling skills in the world’s poorest places.
1 in 3 people worldwide have to dump or burn their waste, causing the spread of disease, polluting the oceans and adding to the climate crisis.
Together with our partners, we develop waste collection and recycling programmes to build a cleaner and healthier future. You can help.
SPECIAL RESOURCES – COVID-19 and waste management
WasteAid safety guidance for waste collectors in lower-income countries
Ready to print posters
Working with waste? COVID-19 Manage the risks
Respect your waste collection crew
Thanks to friends at ISSL, Open University and Barefoot College for help developing these guidelines.
WasteAid welcomes the COVID-19 and Waste Management factsheets published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
The United Nations Environment Programme COVID-19 Waste Management Factsheets provide guidance on how to mitigate the adverse impacts of the pandemic on the global environment.
Please support our urgent 2020 appeal:
Waste Collectors Rock!
Our fundraising events are postponed, so we’ve been hatching plans to keep you involved, physically fit and having fun, while raising money to support our amazing teams around the world.
This is your chance to shine!
Join the WasteAid Virtual Safari for health, wellbeing and waste collectors
WasteAid toolkit for community waste management
Our award-winning WasteAid toolkit, Making Waste Work, helps people start up community waste management and recycling businesses, keep neighbourhoods clean, and generate an income. Visit the toolkit for technical and safety tips and more ideas for turning waste into useful products. #makingwastework
Watch: How to turn plastic bags into paving tiles (youtube)
Explore the full WasteAid toolkit and 12 how-to guides
Spanish toolkit: Residuos Útiles: Una caja de herramientas
Celebrating two years of the WasteAid toolkit!
Join in
Be part of the WasteAid movement calling for better waste management for all. By acting now we can help protect future generations from serious pollution, the spread of diseases, and the harmful impacts of climate change.
Support our new appeal: Waste Collectors Rock!
Try out our craft library and turn trash into treasure
Help solve a WasteAid challenge
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Partnership Engagement Manager
We are looking to recruit a dynamic, motivated and experienced professional to develop our income generation strategy across a variety of income streams (predominantly corporate partnerships and through trusts and foundations).
WasteAid appoints Michelle Wilson to lead Global Circular Economy Network
WasteAid, the charity that shares waste management and recycling skills around the world, has appointed Michelle Wilson to lead its Circular Economy Network project funded by global sustainable food packaging leader Huhtamaki. The two-year, £800,000 partnership...
WasteAid supporters make the difference to COVID resilience in Kenya
Communities around the world have been responding to COVID – read how your donation to WasteAid has made a difference.The informal settlement of Kwa-Muhia in Kenya is home to some 7,000 people, many of whom live below the poverty line. WasteAid has been working in...
Partnerships
WasteAid works with governments and businesses to help stop plastic pollution and climate change emissions from waste.
New partnership in Malawi centres on capacity building
Learn about our UK Aid Match programme in Cameroon
WasteAid partners with waste management company Biffa
UK Aid funds WasteAid to recycle ocean-bound plastics in the Gambia
Inspiration and ideas
Be inspired by stories of people making waste work in their communities. Send us your ideas and stories about transforming waste materials into something useful. #makingwastework
Take part! Join the Eyewitness campaign
Can you solve a WasteAid challenge?
The bigger picture
Unmanaged waste is fast becoming one of the biggest issues of our time.
Marine Plastic Pollution: From the Land to the Sea
Single-use Plastics: A Roadmap for Sustainability
Waste and the Sustainable Development Goals
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