Webinar: Waste management during the COVID-19 pandemic – Workers’ Safety

Already before COVID-19, 2 billion people worldwide were lacking access to waste collection and 3 billion to controlled waste disposal. The current COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly spreading, thus intensifying its impact upon the world’s healthcare systems and economy. During this time, ensuring reliable and safe municipal solid waste management (MSWM) services provision is a must for all local governments to protect public health and contain the spread of the virus. Cities in low to middle-income countries, where waste management service provision is immature and with a high percentage of informality in the waste and recycling economy, are particularly at high risk. Therefore, UN-Habitat (Waste Wise Cities Campaign) and the Wuppertal Institute are organizing this series of webinars, under the Urban Pathways Project, to support local governments and work together in combatting COVID-19.

•  16 April 2020 - 2PM (CEST): Challenges & Opportunities
•  23 April 2020 - 9AM (CEST): Adapting systems to manage the crisis
•  30 April 2020 - 3PM (CEST): Workers’ Safety
•  07 May 2020 - 9AM (CEST): Managing medical and special wastes

Please find the registration links for the different topics here.