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WasteAid guide to waste reduction in offices, meetings and everyday activities
Marina Bradford is a sustainability and procurement consultant, helping organisations implement sustainable operational practices and leverage buying power for positive change. Her specific interest is around resource efficiency, waste management and impact business...
Global partnership with Huhtamaki on circular economy innovation
Huhtamaki and WasteAid announce global partnership to drive community-level circular economy innovation in key locations Global sustainable food packaging leader Huhtamaki and international charity WasteAid have announced a €900,000 (£800,000) partnership to drive...
Ceris Turner-Bailes appointed as new WasteAid Chief Executive
WasteAid, the charity that shares waste management and recycling skills around the world, has appointed Ceris Turner-Bailes to be its new Chief Executive. Joining with immediate effect, Ceris will be leading WasteAid to expand its international reach and impact....
Virtual Safari: Why Kwa Muhia?
Waste in Kwa Muhia Testimonial: Duncan Oloo, Kwa Muhia Environmental Group"We had no waste collection service until WasteAid helped us develop a community approach to managing our rubbish sustainably by setting up a waste recycling centre within the village. The Kwa...
EARTH DAY: WasteAid launches Virtual Safari
WasteAid has created a Virtual Safari into the Kenyan wilderness, an immersive experience with science, culture, art, cookery and lots of wildlife to help lift spirits, and to raise money for waste collectors in low-income countries. Virtual safari around lake...
Waste collection: the public health imperative
Despite rarely achieving the same public and political profile as other utility services, waste management can be considered a ‘basic human right’ alongside water and sanitation, energy, transport and communications. UNEP/ISWA, 2015 In the UK, none of us can remember...
Fundraising at home? We’re in!
WasteAiders are amazing! That's nothing new, but right now we are so impressed with the genius fundraising ideas people have come up with for our Spring 2020 appeal. WasteAid Appeal: Waste Collectors Rock! Like many charities, we have postponed our Spring 2020...
WasteAid Appeal: Waste Collectors Rock!
With the spread of coronavirus, waste collection and street cleansing crews cannot stay home to stay safe. They are keeping waste collection services going, and helping limit the spread of disease in their communities, towns and cities. If the last few weeks have...
WasteAid message: COVID-19
WasteAid Public Update: Coronavirus WasteAid takes the safety and wellbeing of our staff, partners and beneficiaries very seriously. While there is a heightened risk to health from coronavirus it is important that we review the situation regularly. We have...
Support Nicole Garofano in her eXXpedition plastic marine debris journey
“My name is Nicole Garofano. I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Queensland. My research is focused on plastic food and beverage packaging material in small island developing states. My case study countries are Vanuatu, Barbados, St Vincent & the Grenadines,...
Walk for WasteAid 2020 postponed. Please support our urgent appeal.
*** THE WALK FOR WASTEAID 2020 IS POSTPONED, PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES *** Due to the coronavirus outbreak, we have had to postpone some of our biggest fundraising events of the year. Waste collectors around the world are putting themselves at risk to...
Red bins, blue bins, green bins? What’s KMEG up to now?
WasteAid's team in Kenya have been busy developing waste services in Kwa Muhia, thanks to UK Aid funding. Jill Matthews has sent this update... In Kwa-Muhia many residents rent a room in a plot. Until now those renting rooms have put their household waste into sacks...
It’s all go down in Douala!
Mike Webster has sent this update from WasteAid's UK Aid Match programme in Cameroon. I’ve just returned from out kick off visit to our partners in Douala and I’m pleased to say Pierre and the team are moving ahead rapidly. We have helped Pierre to set up Young...
WasteAid welcomes new team members
With our growth plans well-underway, we are excited to welcome recent additions to the team.At the end of 2019 Ray Georgeson MBE moved from the WasteAid board into the leadership team as Interim Executive Support, bringing decades of experience to help prepare us for...
Final training session in the Gambia, turning plastic waste into paving tiles
We enjoyed our final visit to the Gambia on the WasteAid programme funded by UK Aid Direct. What an adventure we've had! Trained 90 people from the coastal village of Gunjur in the problems caused by plastic pollution, and practical alternatives to open dumping...
An African’s Guide to going Zero Waste, as told by a Nigerian in the diaspora
Tobi Ade-Odiachi is a Risk Analyst at KPMG. Originally from Nigeria and now living in Bristol (UK), Tobi has kindly shared her insights into how we can all move towards a more 'zero waste' life. We are masters of repurposing: everything definitely has another...
Expansion plans and team development
WasteAid heralds new decade of action fighting poverty, pollution and climate change with expansion plans and team development. Following our recent strategic review, confirmed by our Board at a meeting on 15th January 2020, WasteAid, the international waste...
A letter of gratitude to our Proud Partners Biffa
A letter of gratitude to… our Proud Partners, BiffaDear Biffa colleagues, We are writing to say a big thank you to all of you who have been involved in the Proud Partnership with WasteAid this year. 2019 has been pivotal for WasteAid, and Biffa has played a crucial...