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MRWA and Veolia offer £165,000 to waste projects

The Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority (MRWA), in partnership with Veolia, has made £165,000 available for community waste and recycling projects in the region.

Veolia Merseyside
Last year, £20,000 from the MRWA Community Fund was awarded to the British Diabetic Assocition, which launched a 'let's get cooking' scheme in Merseyside

The funding is for not-for-profit organisations who can reduce household waste, encourage recycling and resource reuse and prevent carbon emissions.

There is up to £30,000 for projects which cover a minimum of three City Region districts, and between £1000 and £8,000 available for projects which work solely at one local authority level.

The funding is available via the Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority and Veolia Community Fund 2023/24.

Veolia processes recyclables for the authority, and also runs the network of household waste and recycling centres.

Chairperson of the MRWA, Councillor Tony Concepcion, said: “Giving groups the opportunity to get involved in looking after their environment brings benefits to all and can help us appreciate items as valuable resources rather than something which otherwise might be just thrown away.

“We’ve seen that previous projects have continued to deliver benefits beyond the first year, through their legacy and ongoing impact on behavioural change, and in many cases through new or continuing activities.”

Bids

Veolia Merseyside
Veolia’s MRF in Gillmoss, Liverpool, was opened in 2012

Bids must tackle one or more of the four priority household waste materials which have been identified by MRWA as key.

These are WEEE, food, textiles and furniture, after an analysis of waste in the region highlighted that a “greater amount of these materials could be re-used or recycled”.

Previous Community Fund projects have included local recycling guidebooks, cookery clubs to support healthy eating and reduce food waste, fruit and veg gleaning, restoring old furniture to sell for charity and refurbishing unwanted rugs for resale.

Suzanne Mitchell, Let’s Get Cooking lead, said: “The opportunity to support a local community with our funding was a really powerful idea. We hope we’ve inspired households to think about new ways to save money by reducing the amount of food they throw away and growing their own produce using a community garden.”

Interested groups can apply here.

Successful projects should receive the funding by mid May 2023 and will have to deliver their schemes by March 2024.

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