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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.
Celebrating “the Wonders of Waste”
Every year, WasteAid honours the growing global community of waste collectors, recyclers, repairers and upcyclers with the Wonders of Waste photography competition.
This year’s winning photos are from Bonaire, India, Laos, Nigeria, Uganda, the United Kingdom and South Africa, and are a glorious celebration of human ingenuity and resilience.
See the winning Wonders of Waste photographs
Order a WasteAid 2021 Calendar
By buying a WasteAid calendar you can help recyclers around the world to innovate and earn a better income, while preventing plastic pollution and reducing climate change emissions from waste.
There’s never been a better time to support WasteAid.
Order your 2021 calendars today and be inspired by the wonders of waste all year round.
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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Waste Management and Development – Supporting People and Planet
At WasteAid, we work with communities and policy makers in low and middle-income countries to implement waste management and recycling programmes. Our work improves the livelihoods of some of the poorest and most marginalised, promotes circular economy innovation and...
Growing WaRM for climate resilience in Africa
WasteAid‘s senior technical advisor and head of communications, Zoë Lenkiewicz, says waste and resource management (‘WaRM’) has an important role in building climate resilience in Africa, and with COP26 on the horizon WasteAid is aiming to put it on the agenda.Most...
Building a plastics recycling enterprise in The Gambia
In 2018 WasteAid was awarded funding via the UK Aid Small Charities Challenge Fund to develop a plastic waste recycling programme to benefit marginalised communities on the Gambian coast. Working in partnership with Women’s Initiative the Gambia and the Trust Agency...
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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