Projects
WasteAid shares simple waste management know-how with communities in low-income countries.
Our projects help reduce the negative impacts of waste, create jobs, improve health and protect the local and global environment.
Please explore our projects and photo galleries. To download the WasteAid 2016/17 Impact Report (pdf) click here.
The incredible story of Pierre Kamsouloum, plastics recycling champion of Cameroon
Pierre Kamsouloum: WasteAid's inspirational plastics recycling trainer Pierre teaches people in the poorest parts of the world to stop ocean plastic pollution, by turning plastic waste into useful products. Our aid match appeal is to develop a training centre near the...
Photo diary: a day with plastic pollution in Douala, Cameroon
Roadsides and riverbeds full of plastic Plastic pollution and poverty Children growing up in areas without waste management suffer from respiratory illnesses, diarrhoea, and increased incidences of water-borne and mosquito-borne...
Help protect the fragile wildlife of the Cameroon estuary
Widening the Net: keep our rivers and seas plastic free Our UK Aid Match appeal is raising money to keep our rivers and seas plastic-free. We want to save the precious marine wildlife of the Cameroon estuary from plastic pollution. Our aim is to train hundreds of...
The Gambia: Plastics recycling training update
WasteAid is training a team in the coastal village of Gunjur, the Gambia, to capture and recycle ocean-bound plastics. This is a two-year project funded by UK Aid, under the Small Charities Challenge Fund. It is a pilot project to demonstrate the viability of this...
WasteAid launches UK Aid Match campaign
Help more people benefit from green recycling jobs in some of the world’s poorest places. Empower them to keep plastic out of the ocean and create a healthier future for everyone. On 1 May we launched our UK Aid Match appeal, Widening the Net. We also celebrated the...
Volunteer Voices: plastics recycling training in the Gambia
Victoria Manning of Vitaka Consulting Ltd joined the WasteAid team in Gunjur, the Gambia, for our first plastics recycling training session. Read about Vic's experience in a place with no waste management.As a chartered town planner with a specialism in waste, I am...
WasteAid Eyewitness Campaign
Your stories of waste around the world are powerful. Let's join together to influence decision-makers and help sort the waste crisis for future generations. To harness people power, we have decided to launch the Eyewitness campaign. The aim is to gather case...
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...
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...
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),...
Community waste management toolkit and how-to guides
WasteAid has produced a free, online toolkit for communities around the world to learn how to manage their waste and make new products.
Africa’s first community waste management conference
WasteAid ran a six-day workshop in partnership with the Arkleton Trust on community waste management with 40 participants from The Gambia and 30 more from Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Cameroon and India.
Training a community recycling team
Part of the poorest country in the world, only 15% of waste is collected in Hargeisa, leaving a city full of illegal dumpsites, burning waste and poor public health.
Recycling for sustainable livelihoods
We worked with the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocese in far northern Ghana, to clean up communities, making them healthier places to live and grow up in, and also create jobs and income.
Training community leaders in recycling and waste management
WasteAid worked with local environmental champions KMEG to see how we could help them develop local waste livelihoods and recycle more of their waste.
Train-the-trainer programme and development of 27 community recycling centres
WasteAid undertook The Gambia’s first ever waste analysis and used our findings to develop a centre for training people to develop recycling businesses.
Help us do more
With your support we can help more communities manage their waste, create recycling jobs and build a healthier future for everyone.
