Fifteen community organisations across the Liverpool City Region have been awarded a share of £165,000 to launch waste reduction, reuse, and recycling initiatives.
Delivered through the Zero Waste Community Fund 2026/27, a partnership between Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority (MRWA) and Veolia, the funding aims to empower grassroots projects.
The locally-led schemes plan to tackle high-priority waste, including food, textiles, and electronics, embed sustainable habits, and reduce the region’s carbon footprint by March 2027.
Earlier this year, the organisations had to bid for the funding, which will give them the financial support to deliver waste-reducing behavioural change projects across the Liverpool City Region.
The successful projects include a travelling textiles education van, cookery classes to reduce food waste, furniture upcycling workshops, and an electronics repair café.
Lesley Worswick, Chief Executive of MRWA, commented: “The Zero Waste Community Fund is about turning inspiring ideas into lasting environmental action.”
“We have awarded 15 projects that demonstrate exactly how we can rethink our relationship with ‘waste’ – transforming it instead into a resource for our communities.”
Project applications had to tackle one or more of the five priority household waste materials which have been identified by MRWA: Food, Furniture, Electricals, Plastics and Textiles.
An analysis of waste in the Liverpool City Region highlighted that a greater amount of these materials could be reused or recycled.
