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Zumo Walking for WasteAid
Team Zumo gets involved in support of partner charity WasteAid This article was written by Daniel Taylor, Lead Content Marketeer at Zumo, and was first published on the Zumo website.One team, one goal: On Sunday 3 October, members of the Zumo team from across...
Finalists announced for the Zero Waste Cities Challenge
WasteAid's Circular Economy Network has announced the finalists of its Zero Waste Cities Challenge, an innovation competition for green entrepreneurs in Johannesburg, Ho Chi Minh City and Guwahati. The competition was launched to find grassroots solutions to resource...
WasteAid launches first Annual Review
Today, WasteAid published its first annual review – a report that focuses on our developments and most important successes since April 2020. It shares key figures, programme and partnership spotlights, and our newly developed Theory of Change. The Annual Review also...
CEO’s update – August 2021
When writing these pieces, it’s always a great opportunity to reflect on just how much WasteAid has achieved since my last update. I am also pleased to say that it is always a question of selecting the very best of a great body of work, rather than struggling to fill...
Meet WasteAid at RWM in Birmingham
The WasteAid team is returning to RWM, the UK's major resources and waste management exhibitionRWM is the leading recycling, resource, and waste management event in the UK – showcasing the latest innovations shaping the sustainability sector to the industry’s most...
Meet Ingrid Henrys, WasteAid’s new Project Coordinator in The Gambia
In April 2021, WasteAid launched a new EU-funded project to improve climate resilience in The Gambia, which will be overseen by our newly appointed Project Coordinator, Ingrid Henrys. Working in partnership with Kanifing Municipal Council and Women's Initiative...
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...
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...
