WasteAid shares recycling skills around the world
Did you know that up to 70% of the plastic in the oceans comes from places with no waste management?
1 in 3 people globally do not have a waste management service and have to burn or dump their waste, much of it ending up in the oceans.
WasteAid helps people turn their waste into useful products. We share recycling skills to create green jobs, improve public health, and protect the environment.
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
Partnerships
WasteAid works with community-based organisations to help develop waste collection and recycling businesses.
Africa’s first community waste management conference 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
A school built from plastic bottles in Cambodia
The bigger picture
Solid 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
Volunteer Voices: My Week with Waste in the Gambia
Jen Robertson, Senior Project Manager at Keep Britain Tidy and WasteAid volunteer has been supporting the UK Aid-funded plastics recycling programme in the Gambia. Whilst still considering myself a relative newbie to the professional waste world, it took...
Cleaning the poorest communities in Islamabad
It’s always the poorest who live in the dirtiest places and suffer ill health as a result. Why? Because they can’t afford private waste collections and the government tends to ignore them. That’s why the Pakistan Mission Society, supported by Tearfund, has...
UK Aid funds WasteAid to recycle ocean-bound plastics in the Gambia
WasteAid has received grant funding from UK Aid to run a two-year plastics recycling programme in the Gambia. The project will capture plastic waste from the coastal town of Gunjur and turn it into useful products to stop it reaching the ocean.Local...
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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.
Waste Aid in Australia works with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island (ATSI) communities to create sustainable solutions to inadequate waste management in disadvantaged communities. Waste Aid Australia assists ATSI partners to leverage their own skills and expertise to manage environmental problems on their own land. Find out more at wasteaid.org.au
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