Raising awareness is always a priority and this week you can see debris issues highlighted from our recent and ongoing work in this informative BBC article. BBC: Who cleans up after hurricanes, earthquakes and war?...
We are proud of our DWR colleagues in North East Nigeria who have started waste clean up and management in Maiduguri. DWR’s First batch of 500 of 1000 beneficiaries are now removing wastes from the streets and drainage channels, helping to reduce public health risks...
The Yemen Emergency Waste Assessment is publicly available. This summer DWR conducted this study for UNDP Yemen to identify the impact of the ongoing conflict on public authorities' ability to deliver waste collection and to assess the damage to waste and recycling infrastructures. ...
Disaster Waste Recovery (DWR) has over July and August carried out an in-depth Emergency Waste Assessment in six governorates of Yemen in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)....
DWR are invited by International Synergies (international-synergies.com) to co-host an event at the forthcoming G7 Alliance meeting in Birmingham (UK) 28th – 30th October 2015. The event: “Sustainable resource management in post disaster situations - Extending the application of industrial symbiosis” will bring together key stakeholders...
We now have a debris and demolition team in Nepal working both in the rural areas affected by the April 2015 earthquake as well as in Kathmandu....
Disaster Waste Recovery (DWR) is this week deploying Aiden Short to Nepal to support and raise awareness within the affected authorities and communities on simple and safe solid waste actions, debris reuse and recycling. DWR's rapid response is being supported by CARE International to whom...
We are proud to share our 50th project working with waste, debris and environmental issues in both natural disasters and conflicts. Check out our new interactive map on the Disaster Waste Recovery (DWR) website that shows the different types of projects that we have been involved...