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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...
Preparing for a plastics recycling training centre in Cameroon
While it may seem like all has been quiet since the end of our summer appeal, plenty has been going on behind the scenes to get ready for the January kick-off of our new project. At WasteAid we have been working together with UK Aid to finalise the financial and...
Kenya upcycling: recovering value from waste
The two-year UK Aid-funded WasteAid initiative in Kenya is helping an entire community move towards zero waste. This update has been provided by our project managers, Duncan Oloo and Moses Noah.It’s now close to one year of implementing the zero waste initiative with...
Two Years of the WasteAid Toolkit
This article was written for Circular Online, a daily news and insights resource for sustainability professionals working in resources and waste. Zoë Lenkiewicz, Head of Programmes and Engagement for WasteAid, looks back at two years since launching the WasteAid...
Winners of the 2019 photo competition “The Wonders of Waste”
WasteAid’s annual photography competition attracted a incredible amount of talent and passion for showing "The Wonders of Waste". The twelve winning photos have been compiled into the 2020 WasteAid calendar which is available to pre-order now.We are really grateful to...
WasteAid supporters raise £168,000 to fight ocean plastic pollution and climate change
WasteAid’s Widening the Net appeal has raised more than £168,000, including £80,076 of matched funding from the UK government, to help stop plastic pollution in the Cameroon estuary. The matched funding will be used to build a plastics recycling training centre in the...
WasteAid waste management toolkit launched in Spanish
We are delighted to announce that the award-winning WasteAid toolkit for community waste management, Making Waste Work, is now available in Spanish: Residuos Útiles: Una caja de herramientas. The WasteAid toolkit is a free online guide to setting up simple waste...
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,...