Biffa's Wasteaters supporting WasteAid
WasteAid helps people all around the world to manage and look after their waste in smarter, safer ways.
In many places like The Gambia, Uganda and South Sudan, people don’t always have bins or ways to recycle. So, rubbish is often dumped or even burned. This can make the rivers, soil and air dirty – and spread disease.
WasteAid supports families, local groups and governments to work out ways to manage waste. They teach new skills and build systems to turn waste into something useful. Like new materials, or even helping local people start new businesses.
It’s all part of making our planet a cleaner and happier place.
Celebrating WasteAid's partnership with Biffa
Since 2019, WasteAid has been proud to work in partnership with Biffa, one of the UK’s leading waste management companies. What began as an early commitment to a young charity has grown into a long-standing collaboration that has helped WasteAid expand its reach, strengthen its organisation, and deliver practical waste solutions in communities around the world.
Biffa was one of WasteAid’s first corporate partners, providing vital early funding and confidence at a critical stage in our development.
Over the years, Biffa employees across the UK have shown incredible commitment to WasteAid’s mission. Through quiz nights, sponsored walks, internal challenges and events, staff fundraising has consistently exceeded expectations and raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for our work.
Biffa’s support goes beyond funding. Colleagues have shared their time, technical knowledge and experience to help communities improve waste management practices. From advising on recycling systems to visiting project sites, this practical expertise has played an important role in building local capacity and long-term impact.
We are incredibly grateful to Biffa and its employees for their ongoing commitment, generosity and belief in WasteAid’s work. Partnerships like this make it possible for practical waste solutions to reach the people who need them most.
More about WasteAid
Poorly managed waste is one of the world’s most urgent and overlooked challenges. It pollutes land, rivers and oceans, poisons the air, and is a major contributor to climate change. When waste goes uncollected, communities become unsafe places to live and work.
Today, one in three people worldwide has no access to waste management services. With no alternatives, millions are forced to dump or burn their waste every day.
The impacts fall hardest on lower-income countries. Unmanaged waste drives serious public health risks, worsens air pollution, blocks drainage systems, increases flooding, and fuels the spread of infectious disease. These local impacts add up to global consequences, creating long-term environmental damage that is costly and difficult to reverse.
At the same time, the problem is growing fast. Rising populations, rapid urbanisation and economic growth are driving sharp increases in waste. In cities across Africa and Asia, waste generation is expected to double within the next 20 years.
This is a crisis, but it is also an opportunity.
WasteAid works with communities, governments and businesses to put practical, low-cost waste solutions into action. By sharing knowledge, building skills and supporting local innovation, WasteAid helps turn waste from a problem into a resource.
Our vision is a world where waste causes no harm, and where people living in poverty are empowered to recover its value and build safer, more sustainable futures.
Support our work
No child should have to play next to burning piles of toxic waste while their parents work every single day sifting through discarded plastic and other waste in ditches, rivers, and in the street to earn enough money to feed and clothe their family.
WasteAid is working tirelessly to change that.
Your support helps us run critical programmes with the communities most in need of our help.
Donate today to help us continue this work.