Meet Ingrid Henrys, WasteAid’s new Project Coordinator in The Gambia
In April 2021, WasteAid launched a new EU-funded project to improve climate resilience in The Gambia, which will be overseen by our newly appointed Project Coordinator, Ingrid Henrys. Working in partnership with Kanifing Municipal Council and Women’s...
E-waste: WasteAid partners with musicMagpie at G7
WasteAid partners with recommerce expert musicMagpie ahead of attention-grabbing event at G7 to highlight the growing environmental threat of e-waste Image: Adam Gasson/PA Wire WasteAid has partnered with recommerce expert musicMagpie as part of its G7 campaign to...
World Environment Day 2021: Spotlight on e-waste
Ambitions to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will rely on low carbon technology, which in turn depends upon the availability of rare elements such as cobalt and lithium. But with electrical and electronic goods being casually disposed of in landfills and...
WasteAid awarded EU funding for climate resilience in The Gambia
A new EU-funded partnership project between INGO WasteAid, Kanifing Municipal Council and Women’s Initiative The Gambia. Food waste will be separated by market vendors and transferred to women’s gardens where the majority of crops are grown. Women gardeners will be...
Earth Day 2021 – your donation doubled!
This Earth Day, have your donation to WasteAid doubled by The Big Give! It’s easy to take a rubbish collection for granted, but in many places there are no binmen. Rubbish accumulates in streets and riverbeds and makes people ill. By donating you can...
Celebrating Global Recycling Day 2021
Recycling: an untold story Zoë Lenkiewicz of WasteAid and Ranjit Baxi of Global Recycling Day Celebrating Global Recycling Day 2021 with a live webinar discussing the huge, yet often under-recognised, benefits of recycling: Preventing climate change emissions...
Bunzl plc and WasteAid to close the loop on plastic waste in Douala, Cameroon
PRESS RELEASE Thirty young unemployed people will secure long-term jobs in the green economy Collecting and recycling 8 tonnes of plastic waste will reduce health problems, climate change emissions and marine plastic pollution Partnership between Bunzl plc 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...
Community waste management in Malawi: a feasibility study
WasteAid recently partnered with International Conservation and Clean-up Management (ICCM) to identify ways to improve waste management in Malawi. The study set out to understand what activities are already taking place and to provide recommendations to develop...From the Land to the Sea, CIWM & WasteAid report
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