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A visit to the WasteAid plastics recycling training centre in the Gambia
Dr Harriet Baird is a researcher working on a project being conducted by the Grantham Centre (at the University of Sheffield) exploring novel solutions and strategies for reducing the impact of single-use plastic. Harriet is working on the behaviour change stream...
Creative upcycling in Kenya
Moses Noah is the WasteAid project officer in Kenya, helping deliver sustainable waste management solutions in his community of Kwa Muhia. The project is funded by UK Aid for two years under the Small Charities Challenge Fund. Read more about the context and goals of...
WasteAid Volunteers
We want to thank our inspiring volunteers fighting poverty, pollution and climate change at events, in schools and in your communities. You are the beating heart of the organisation and we would like to thank you for your support, now and in the future. There are...
Meet WasteAid in Birmingham, UK
We are only 6 weeks away from the UK’s largest Recycling and Waste Management show, RWM Exhibition. And WasteAid are thrilled to announce we will be speaking at the event! Mike Webster, our CEO, will hold a seminar focused on: Turtles vs child health – why does...
WasteAiders are amazing!
WasteAiders are doing incredible things! You have found so many ways to make a positive impact on global plastic pollution. The 2019 UK Aid Match appeal brought out fundraising heroes galore... Although the campaign ended on 31 July, all donations to WasteAid will...
WasteAid photography exhibition at RWM
The WasteAid photography exhibition will be on display at RWM, in partnership with CIWM. Images on display will include entries to the 2019 Photography Competition "The Wonders of Waste", plus some of the striking photos taken for the current UK Aid Match campaign in...
WasteAid and KMEG in Naivasha, Kenya
At the end of April, Biffa’s Dean Willet and WasteAid’s Mike Webster headed out to Kwa Muhia on the shores of Lake Naivasha to see how WasteAid’s UKAid funded project with the Kwa Muhia Environmental Group (KMEG) was progressing. Kicking off at the beginning of 2019,...
Innovation in plastic recycling
WasteAid's pilot project proves that everyone can help stop plastic pollution.Turning plastic waste into durable products is what WasteAid's plastics recycling specialist Pierre Kamsouloum does best. In a coastal village in the Gambia, Pierre and the WasteAid team...
Watch: WasteAid and Biffa on Brighton beach
WasteAid and proud partners Biffa were on Brighton beach, discussing how to stop plastic reaching the oceans.
Sir David Attenborough backs new report revealing stark health impacts of plastic pollution and rubbish on world’s poorest people
A new report finds one person dies every 30 seconds in developing countries from diseases caused by plastic pollution and rubbish.
Sir David Attenborough backs the report saying ‘it’s one of the first to highlight the impacts of plastic pollution…on world’s poorest people’
“The Wonders of Waste” WasteAid Photo Competition 2019
Enter the WasteAid 2019 Photography Competition on the “Wonders of Waste”.
WasteAid launches UK Aid Match campaign
Help more people benefit from green recycling jobs in some of the world’s poorest places. Empower them to keep plastic out of the ocean and create a healthier future for everyone. On 1 May we launched our UK Aid Match appeal, Widening the Net. We also celebrated the...
WasteAid partners with waste management company Biffa
WasteAid partners with waste management company Biffa to tackle global waste issues Biffa will share its experience and expertise to make a genuine difference in communities without waste management Biffa plc, a leading UK integrated waste management company, today...
Walk for WasteAid 2019 Manchester 6 July
Join the Walk for WasteAid and help save the oceans from plastic waste.Join us on our epic fundraiser and help to stop ocean plastic pollution. Your sponsorship will go directly towards training people living near the Cameroon estuary to stop plastic waste reaching...
WasteAid Eyewitness Campaign
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...
WasteAid awarded UK Aid funding for community recycling in Kenya
The British government has awarded WasteAid funding from UK Aid to deliver a second project as part of the Small Charities Challenge Fund. Working with local partners, WasteAid will set up a waste and recycling centre that will create green jobs and contribute towards...
Visualising Rivers of Plastic
Most of the plastic in the oceans comes from land-based sources in parts of the world without decent waste management.John Nelson of ESRI has produced a unique, vintage-themed map that visualises the amount of plastic polluting major rivers around the world. Plastic...
Volunteer Voices: My Week with Waste in the Gambia
Jen Robertson, Senior Project Manager at Keep Britain Tidy and WasteAid volunteer has been supporting the UK Aid-funded plastics recycling programme in the Gambia. Whilst still considering myself a relative newbie to the professional waste world, it took...