Your stories of waste around the world are powerful.
Let’s join together to influence decision-makers and help sort the waste crisis for future generations.
To harness people power, we have decided to launch the Eyewitness campaign.
The aim is to gather case studies from places with no waste management. We would like to hear from you about your experiences with waste where you live.
Join the movement and help draw attention to the global waste crisis!
We are inviting you to share your experience of waste with the world. The more of us who take part, the more powerful our stories will become.
Please download the questionnaire, answer the questions and send it back to us with some photos you’d be happy for us to share.
We will use Eyewitness reports on the WasteAid website, in our newsletters and on social media to say “Enough is enough” – we must address the waste crisis and stop polluting our planet.
Stay tuned for regular updates!
Eyewitness: Simon Kateeba in Fort Portal, Uganda
Contamination of water points by plastic bottles and rotten waste which are scattered everywhere and later directed to the rivers by running rainwater. This later results in an outbreak of chronic diseases like diarrhea dysentery and typhoid.
Eyewitness: Emmanuel Mabitine in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
The waste situation over here is bad and household waste are dumped on the roadside. It makes me feel sad.
Eyewitness: Ssebagala Nasifuh in Kampala, Uganda
This is a personal account provided to WasteAid through our eyewitness campaign.Please describe the waste situation where you live. Household waste is nearly not collected and it is not recycled either. That's why I am stepping up to create a difference in my...
Photo diary: a day with plastic pollution in Douala, Cameroon
Roadsides and riverbeds full of plastic Plastic pollution and poverty Children growing up in areas without waste management suffer from respiratory illnesses, diarrhoea, and increased incidences of water-borne and mosquito-borne...
Eyewitness: Ogunsakin Sunday in Lagos, Nigeria
The waste situation over here is bad and household waste are dumped on the roadside. It makes me feel sad.
Eyewitness: Camillius Ekujere K. in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
“I am not happy with people’s attitude on waste disposal and wish this could change.”
Eyewitness: Oluwole Ojetunde in Ibadan, Nigeria
“Epidemics are caused by the poor way of managing waste.”
Eyewitness: Ratna Das in Kolkata, India
“All food packagings are thrown anywhere. Until now its seems not a big issue. But in up coming years it will cause the huge problem.”
Eyewitness: Franklin Nchanji in Biyem Assi, Yaoundé, Cameroon
“Awareness building and sharing shall be the major tool used to turn the tide and which helped to kill the plastic monster.”
Eyewitness: Moffat Kaunda in Nkhata Bay, Malawi
“People are not happy because waste is everywhere.”
Eyewitness: Kakuru Gyaviira in Moroto, Uganda
“People just dump waste anywhere, near the road or in rivers or waterways, nobody collects waste from homes.”
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