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.
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...
WasteAid waste management toolkit launched in Spanish
We are delighted to announce that the award-winning WasteAid toolkit for community waste management, Making Waste Work, is now available in Spanish: Residuos Útiles: Una caja de herramientas. The WasteAid toolkit is a free online guide to setting up simple waste...
A visit to the WasteAid plastics recycling training centre in the Gambia
Dr Harriet Baird is a researcher working on a project being conducted by the Grantham Centre (at the University of Sheffield) exploring novel solutions and strategies for reducing the impact of single-use plastic. Harriet is working on the behaviour change stream...
Creative upcycling in Kenya
Moses Noah is the WasteAid project officer in Kenya, helping deliver sustainable waste management solutions in his community of Kwa Muhia. The project is funded by UK Aid for two years under the Small Charities Challenge Fund. Read more about the context and goals of...
WasteAid and KMEG in Naivasha, Kenya
At the end of April, Biffa’s Dean Willet and WasteAid’s Mike Webster headed out to Kwa Muhia on the shores of Lake Naivasha to see how WasteAid’s UKAid funded project with the Kwa Muhia Environmental Group (KMEG) was progressing. Kicking off at the beginning of 2019,...
Innovation in plastic recycling
WasteAid's pilot project proves that everyone can help stop plastic pollution.Turning plastic waste into durable products is what WasteAid's plastics recycling specialist Pierre Kamsouloum does best. In a coastal village in the Gambia, Pierre and the WasteAid team...
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),...
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