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CEO’s blog – April 2021
We must embrace 2021, the year of COP26, as an opportunity to highlight the links between poor waste management and climate change. The start of 2021 has been frustrating at times for the WasteAid team, as I am sure it has been for many of our friends, supporters, and...
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...
Partnerships are key: a Q&A with our CEO
Corin Williams, Editor of MRW, interviewed WasteAid's Chief Executive, Ceris Turner-Bailes. CW: You joined WasteAid just a few weeks into the first lockdown. What challenges did you have to overcome and how did the organisation have to change its operations? CTB: The...
Five ways to inspire your colleagues and do something extraordinary
There’s no magic formula to finding happiness in your job, but here at WasteAid we know that bringing your passion to work every day really helps. We are a small but incredibly motivated team of waste managers, development experts and charity professionals and the one...
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...
Plastic champions training begins in Cameroon
Following a brief pause in 2020, WasteAid’s work in Douala, Cameroon, is back in full swing. WasteAid's partners in Douala have been recruiting people to join the plastic recycling training programme and contribute towards a cleaner and healthier city.Leaving no-one...
Building a plastics recycling enterprise in The Gambia
WasteAid's plastics recycling initiative in The Gambia has received business development support to help build the enterprise and secure long-term sustainability.In 2018 WasteAid was awarded funding via the UK Aid Small Charities Challenge Fund to develop a plastic...
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...
CEO’s blog – December 2020
As 2020 draws to a close, many will be glad to see the back of this year! It has indeed been tough for WasteAid, our funders, our partners and our beneficiaries and we look forward to 2021 with a renewed optimism. We certainly look forward to a time when our final...
Providing dedicated support to WasteAid’s committed corporate partners
WasteAid has grown as an organisation rapidly over the past six months. In line with our ambitious plans for 2020 and 2021, the charity has developed its staff team and built capacity in key areas. One new appointment will allow us to see a step change in fundraising....
Even something of little value has value: researching, identifying and scaling new technologies in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Once a site of fishing and trading villages, Kinshasa’s population of 14.5 million makes it Africa's third-largest city after Cairo and Lagos. Every day, around 90,000 tonnes of waste is generated and only 20,000 is collected, leaving the vast majority within the...
“The Wonders of Waste” 2020 photography competition winners
WasteAid's third annual photography competition attracted fascinating entries from across the world - thank you to everyone who entered! The 2021 WasteAid calendar showing "The Wonders of Waste" is on sale now.We would like to take this opportunity to...
Launch of WasteAid’s Circular Economy Network in South Africa
INVITATION Launch of WasteAid’s Circular Economy Network in South Africa Online 3 December 11.00-12.30 SAST (09.00-10.30 GMT)The growing WasteAid team is delighted to invite you to the launch of its Circular Economy Network in South Africa.This is the first of a...
WasteAid calls on the PM to retain commitment to aid funding
WasteAid stands with our colleagues across the international development sector in calling for the Prime Minister not to renege on the UK's commitment to spend 0.7% GNI on aid and development. To that end, WasteAid's CEO, Ceris Turner-Bailes, signed this letter on...
CEO’s blog – November 2020
It’s been just over 6 months that I started in my role as CEO of WasteAid, and therefore high time that I shared updates and thoughts with WasteAid’s friends, donors, partners and supporters around the globe. Without your support, good will and donations we would not...
WasteAid announces new partnership for its programme to prevent plastics from entering the ocean in Douala, Cameroon
WasteAid has agreed a new partnership to deliver its flagship UK Aid Match funded programme with a private-sector enterprise based in Douala, RED-PLAST. This new partnership will contribute enormously to WasteAid’s existing work in Cameroon. The ongoing programme...
