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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 our 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...
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...
