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.
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Thanks to friends at ISSL, Open University and Barefoot College for help developing these guidelines.
Please support our spring 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!
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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Fundraising at home? We’re in!
WasteAiders are amazing! That's nothing new, but right now we are so impressed with the genius fundraising ideas people have come up with for our Spring 2020 appeal. WasteAid Appeal: Waste Collectors Rock! Like many charities, we have postponed our Spring 2020...
WasteAid Appeal: Waste Collectors Rock!
Waste collectors help keep our communities clean and healthy, yet their valuable work often goes unrecognised. It's important to us at WasteAid HQ that we keep supporting our waste management teams around the world through Spring 2020. Our fundraising events are...
WasteAid message: COVID-19
WasteAid Public Update: Coronavirus WasteAid takes the safety and wellbeing of our staff, partners and beneficiaries very seriously. While there is a heightened risk to health from coronavirus it is important that we review the situation regularly. We have...
Partnerships
WasteAid works with community-based organisations to help develop waste collection and recycling businesses.
Learn about our UK Aid Match programme in Cameroon
WasteAid partners with waste management company Biffa
WasteAid awarded UK Aid funding for community recycling in Kenya
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?
A school built from plastic bottles in Cambodia
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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