St Helens Borough adopts Liverpool City Region Zero Waste Strategy
A new Zero Waste Strategy co-designed by all councils in the Liverpool City Region and Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority (MRWA) has been adopted in St Helens Borough by Cabinet today (Wednesday 26 February).
Article date: February 26 2025
The strategy adopts and builds on the same interlinking themes of 'People, Planet and Economy,' and the aspiration to become a zero-waste region, as set out in the regional partnership's earlier Zero Waste Framework 2040.
A recommendation was made to adopt the Zero Waste Strategy, alongside and complementary to the council's own Resource and Waste Strategy, which brought changes and improvements to local recycling and waste collections in 2023.
Cabinet also accepted a revenue grant of £2,094,000 from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) as an initial Extended Producer Responsibility payment.
Under this new national policy, some organisations and businesses will have to pay a fee to their local council to cover the costs of collecting, managing, recycling and disposing of household packaging waste they supply to or import into the UK market.
The Cabinet report outlines how this initial grant will help to cover costs incurred by the award of a new recycling transfer contract until a more unified regional approach, set out in the Liverpool City Region Zero Waste Strategy, can be implemented.
Councillor Seve Gomez-Aspron MBE, St Helens Borough Council's Cabinet Member for Transport and Environment, said:
"We're proud to be a recycling and waste pioneer among our Liverpool City Region partners and pleased to be taking the next steps towards a cleaner, greener and wasteless region together.
"Our forward-thinking method has been designed and improved to encourage recycling and make waste a thing of the past, by passing on cleaner materials for reuse in the circular economy, while cutting the costs and contamination that face councils with comingled collections - and making us already compliant with new Government policy.
"It's also great to see that businesses which contribute significantly to the packaging of everyday products - a large part of what goes into our containers - must now take greater responsibility for their environmental impact by contributing to the cost of collection and recycling."
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