Waste Awareness Wales
Local Government House, Walk Cardiff , United Kingdom

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Industry : Waste recycling

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Since Nov, 2014

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About Company

Waste Awareness Wales is a Welsh Government funded organisation with the remit to deliver communication and behaviour change projects to help the general public throughout Wales improve their behaviour with regards to Waste.

Waste Awareness Wales supports each of the 22 unitary authorities in Wales in their localised Waste communications as well as managing the national Recycle for Wales campaign.

Our aims are to:
Reduce waste/increase waste prevention by the public;
Increase participation in reuse activity by the public;
Increase participation in recycling activity by the public;
Increase awareness in local communities of the need for treatment facilities for food and non-recyclable waste.

Waste Awareness Wales works with all 22 of the unitary authorities in Wales and the Welsh Government.

Waste Awareness Wales and the Recycle for Wales campaign have been operating since 2002 and are funded by the Welsh Government while being housed within the Welsh Local Government Association and work closely with the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).

Waste Awareness Wales (WAW) is a Welsh Government funded organisation that delivers communication and behaviour change projects which encourages the Welsh public change their waste behaviours and contribute to meeting the Welsh Government’s prevention, reuse and recycling targets set out in the Wales Waste policy ‘Towards Zero Waste’.

WAW deliver a programme of support for local authorities in their waste communications to help achieve waste targets by encouraging public behaviour change and increased participation in using local authority recycling and other waste services.

WAW delivers the consumer facing, Recycle for Wales campaign and the Love Food Hate Waste campaign in Wales.

WAW aims to:

1. To reduce waste/increase waste prevention activity by general public.

2. To increase preparation of reuse activity by general public.

3. To increase waste recycling activity, including participation, by general public.

4. To increase awareness within local communities for the need for treatment facilities to treat municipal food and residual waste.

Company Name	Waste Awareness Wales
Business Category	Waste recycling
Address	Local Government House Walk Cardiff United Kingdom ZIP: NA
President	NA
Year Established	NA
Employees	NA
Memberships	NA
Hours of Operation	9am-5pm