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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...
Cleaning the poorest communities in Islamabad
It’s always the poorest who live in the dirtiest places and suffer ill health as a result. Why? Because they can’t afford private waste collections and the government tends to ignore them. That’s why the Pakistan Mission Society, supported by Tearfund, has...
UK Aid funds WasteAid to recycle ocean-bound plastics in the Gambia
WasteAid has received grant funding from UK Aid to run a two-year plastics recycling programme in the Gambia. The project will capture plastic waste from the coastal town of Gunjur and turn it into useful products to stop it reaching the ocean.Local...
Mapping the future of waste management in Uganda
How do you go about mapping the waste of an entire country, where formal waste management only exists on a small scale? WasteAid spoke with Taremwa Sam, who is leading the programme to map Uganda’s waste management service delivery. After...
WasteAid collects international award for toolkit, Making Waste Work
The WasteAid toolkit, Making Waste Work, was awarded third place in the prestigious International Solid Waste Association's annual publication prize.This year’s edition of the ISWA Publication Award attracted 15 strong submissions tackling a variety of...
BBC: Drowning in plastic
BBC One has broadcast its feature-length documentary Drowning in Plastic. Liz Bonnin reveals the full scale of the world’s plastic problem and its impact on wildlife, exploring ways in which science can offer a solution. Our blue planet is facing one its...
World Bank: Here’s what everyone should know about waste
World Bank Sustainable Cities blog by Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Sameh Wahba, Silpa Kaza (view original blog post here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=67&v=1CSm4GG2VrU Solid waste management is a universal issue that affects every single person...
WasteAid 2019 Calendars – on sale now!
Limited Edition Order your 2019 WasteAid calendar today Perfect for home or the workplace, our A3 WasteAid wall calendars are printed in full colour on high quality 100% post-consumer recycled paper. Each calendar is wire bound at the head and...
Research paper: How to recycle plastic waste into paving tiles
This research paper was published in Waste Management 80 (2018) 112-118. Download the full pdf. Recycling waste plastics in developing countries: Use of low-density polyethylene water sachets to form plastic bonded sand blocks Alexander Kumi-Larbi Jnr (a),...
“The Wonders of Waste” 2018 photography competition winners
WasteAid's first ever photography competition has been a great success - and now you can buy the WasteAid calendar featuring the 12 images that show the wonders of waste. Thank you to everyone who entered the first ever WasteAid photography...
WasteAid’s programme for RWM
RWM, the UK's largest recycling and waste management event takes place at Birmingham’s NEC, 12-13 September. Waste Matters Theatre Alongside our generous sponsors Dsposal, WasteAid will be co-hosting the Waste Matters Theatre and digging deep into...
Marine Plastic Pollution: From the Land to the Sea
The amount of waste we produce is expected to DOUBLE in the next 15-20 years. Where is it going to go?A growing population, increasing urbanisation, and a shift to a consumer lifestyle are leading to the generation of ever great volumes of solid waste...
WasteAid toolkit wins international award
Making Waste Work, WasteAid and CIWM's free online toolkit for community-led waste management, has been recognised by the International Solid Waste Association as one of the year's top three publications. ‘Making Waste Work: A Toolkit Community Waste Management in Low...
Single-use Plastics: A Roadmap for Sustainability
To ban or not to ban? That is the question! The United Nations Environment Programme has released a detailed report on tackling the challenge of single-use plastics around the world. Victoria Manning, Director at Vitaka Consulting, has kindly summarised...
Knowledge sharing with the Green Reach Trust
When WasteAid was in its earliest days, Mr K Kaliraj of the Green Reach Trust contacted us from Tamil Nadu, India. A local volunteer-run NGO, the Green Reach Trust (GRT) is doing wonderful work transforming agricultural waste into useful products. We stayed in touch...
Meet WasteAid at RWM, 12-13 September 2018
As an official partner of RWM, WasteAid is pleased to share information about the exhibition. We hope to meet you there, where we will have a dedicated stand and seminar theatre, in partnership with our sponsors Dsposal. The UK’s largest recycling and...