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.
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.
