{"id":1025,"date":"2026-05-19T07:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:48:19","slug":"community-groups-awarded-165000-to-help-tackle-waste-in-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/community-groups-awarded-165000-to-help-tackle-waste-in-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Community groups awarded \u00a3165,000 to help tackle waste in Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-beyondwords-player=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<h4><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-612677 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"reuse project\" width=\"860\" height=\"516\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.circularonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MRWAMENCAP_A.jpg?resize=860%2C516&amp;ssl=1\"><\/h4>\n<h4>Fifteen community organisations across the Liverpool City Region have been awarded a share of \u00a3165,000 to launch waste reduction, reuse, and recycling initiatives.<\/h4>\n<p>Delivered through the Zero Waste Community Fund 2026\/27, a partnership between Merseyside Recycling &amp; Waste Authority (MRWA) and Veolia, the funding aims to empower grassroots projects.<\/p>\n<p>The locally-led schemes plan to tackle high-priority waste, including food, textiles, and electronics, embed sustainable habits, and reduce the region\u2019s carbon footprint by March 2027.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The successful projects include a travelling textiles education van, cookery classes to reduce food waste, furniture upcycling workshops, and an electronics repair caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Lesley Worswick, Chief Executive of MRWA, commented:\u00a0\u201cThe Zero Waste Community Fund is about turning inspiring ideas into lasting environmental action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have awarded 15 projects that demonstrate exactly how we can rethink our relationship with \u2018waste\u2019 \u2013 transforming it instead into a resource for our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis of waste in the Liverpool City Region highlighted that a greater amount of these materials could be reused or recycled.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularonline.co.uk\/news\/community-groups-awarded-165000-to-help-tackle-waste-in-liverpool\/\">Community groups awarded \u00a3165,000 to help tackle waste in Liverpool<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularonline.co.uk\">Circular Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Fifteen community organisations across the Liverpool City Region have been awarded a share of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}