Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority
Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority actively promotes its work in local, national and trade media. This part of our site gives you information on our most recent media releases and communications campaigns.
A Sefton charity has spent the last year recruiting an army of volunteers to deliver workshops in clothes, furniture and plastics reuse to help stop materials from going to waste. Fix Up, Look Sharp is the creation of Crosby-based Mencap Liverpool & Sefton, which last year was awarded £7990 by the Merseyside Recycling and Waste – Continue Reading
Please follow the traffic signs, we aim to keep disruption to a minimum but during the works there maybe queuing at busier times. To avoid possible disruption please use Bidston or West Kirby Recycling Centre or consider visiting during offpeak times before 10:00am and after 6:00pm. www.merseyside-and-halton.veolia.co.uk/HWRCS
Essential groundwork repairs are taking place at Clatterbridge Recycling Centre from Tuesday 9th – Friday 12th May. Please follow the traffic signs, we aim to keep disruption to a minimum but during the works there may be queuing at busier times. To avoid possible disruption please use Bidston or West Kirby Recycling Centre or consider – Continue Reading
Merseyside and Halton residents will soon have the opportunity to recycle more as Household Waste Recycling Centres open for longer over the spring and summer months. From Saturday 1st April the region’s Centres will be open from 8.00am until 8.00pm*. There are 16 Household Waste Recycling Centres in the region. They are operated by resource – Continue Reading
Liverpool Half Marathon on SUNDAY 26th MARCH 2023 – Restrictions to access at Otterspool Recycling Centre, Jericho Lane, Liverpool There will be restrictions to the access at the Otterspool Recycling Centre during the Liverpool Half Marathon on Sunday 26th March 2023. Access to and from Jericho Lane / Aigburth Road will be restricted between 9.00 – Continue Reading
Eight community projects in the Liverpool City Region are helping people to cut food waste, eat healthier and save money after a funding boost. The projects have been given a share of £110,000 through the Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority Community Fund 2022/23, which supports community reuse, recycling and waste prevention initiatives across the region. – Continue Reading
A share of £165,000 is up for grabs to help community groups make the Liverpool City region a cleaner and greener place. The funding – made available via the Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority and Veolia Community Fund 2023/24 – is for community and voluntary groups, schools and not-for-profit organisations, who can reduce household waste, – Continue Reading
Reciprocity Wirral, a Merseyside-based pioneer in paint waste, have diverted over 680,000 litres of paint from being wasted and redistributed it into community organisations and families across the region and beyond. By partnering with Veolia and Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority, Recipro have collected hundreds of thousands of litres of householder’s unwanted paint, which is – Continue Reading
Schools from across the Liverpool City Region have come together in an effort to tackle climate change – by reducing the amount of clothes that people throw away. The Great Clothes Swap is the creation of Toxteth-based Liverpool World Centre and environmental charity Faiths4Change, who have been awarded £16,900 by the Merseyside Recycling and Waste – Continue Reading
MRWA has welcomed Lesley Worswick to the Authority as its new Chief Executive. Lesley previously spent over 24 years at the Environment Agency, her most recent post being Area Director for Greater Manchester, Merseyside & Cheshire. Councillor Tony Concepcion, Chairperson of MRWA, said: “Lesley is joining us from the Environment Agency and brings with her – Continue Reading
