Waterford Fair Trade City
Waterford is a fair trade city since October 2005. This means a certain percentage of cafes and shops sell fair trade products. Its usually tea and coffee, primary agricultural products from less developed countries, but there is also chocolate, fruit and honey available to buy.

Waste Education
The Waterford One World Centre has produced a set of 'World Wide Waste' worksheets for primary schools. The worksheets encourage children to learn about reduce, re-use and recycle waste using examples from developing countries. The sheets were produced with funds from Waterford City Council Local Agenda 21 Environmental Partnership Fund. see http://www.waterfordoneworldcentre.com for more

Get Composting
Compost/brown bin collection means that the waste from your brown bin turns into great usable and productive compost in only 12 weeks. The Compost Facility is on the Green Road, Waterford. Bags of compost are available to householders at a cost of only €1.50 per bag.