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Making Waste Work is a toolkit for community waste management in lower- and middle-income countries.

The toolkit provides essential information to help you set up community-led waste management systems and small recycling businesses. These activities can help keep your neighbourhood clean and healthy and even generate a small income.

Funded by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management and produced by WasteAid UK, the toolkit builds on the practical experience and know-how of waste managers and recycling entrepreneurs from across the globe.

Read Making Waste Work to discover the importance of delivering better waste management for all, and how to build local recycling enterprises that create jobs and improve the local economy.

See the How-to guides for illustrated step-by-step instructions to making useful products from waste materials.

All the PDF documents for Making Waste Work are available for download in two different formats. You can tell them by the icons:

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Additionally, you can download any of the PDFs by going to the Downloads page.

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This toolkit has been produced by WasteAid UK with funding from the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management.

WasteAid UK and CIWM are making this toolkit freely available under Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.

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