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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-wasteImage: 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...
CEO’s update
The first part of 2021 has been difficult for all, but here at WasteAid it feels as if things are moving in the right direction – the lockdowns across the UK have lifted and WasteAid managed its first socially distanced UK-based staff meeting in too long. It was so...
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 help...
WasteAid launches €10,000 Zero Waste Cities Challenge
WasteAid launches its Zero Waste Cities Challenge today in Johannesburg, Ho Chi Minh City and Guwahati The competition is part of a programme to encourage a circular economy and inclusive livelihood opportunities in the city Prizes of €10,000 will be awarded to two...
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...
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...
Exploring circularity in Guwahati, India
Dinesh Bandela, WasteAid's new project manager for the Circular Economy Network in Guwahati, India, shares his early thoughts on resource recovery and circularity in the city.In my debut blog I wanted to give you my first impressions of the progress towards a key...
First steps toward building WasteAid’s Circular Economy Network in Johannesburg
Irene Inan, WasteAid's project manager for the Circular Economy Network in Johannesburg, has had a busy first six weeks exploring existing circular economy and resource management activities in the city.I have worked in waste management sector predominantly my whole...
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...
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...
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...
