Cabinet to consider adoption of Liverpool City Region waste strategy
A new Zero Waste Strategy co-designed by all councils in the Liverpool City Region and Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority (MRWA) could be adopted in St Helens Borough when Cabinet meets to consider the move next week (Wednesday 26 February).
Article date: 20 February 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 will be 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 will also be asked to accept 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.
Government will fund the first payment in April 2025, and thereafter the fee will be paid by responsible producers of packaging waste.
The Cabinet report outlines how this initial grant will help to cover costs incurred by the extension of current recycling transfer contracts until a more unified regional approach, set out in the Liverpool City Region Zero Waste Strategy, can be implemented.
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