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Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority is the public facing name of Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority (MWDA). MWDA manages the disposal of household waste for six Local Authority areas in the Liverpool City Region (referred to as the “Districts”), these being Halton Borough Council, Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Liverpool City Council, St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council, Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council and Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council. All the districts are designated Waste Collection Authorities except Halton, who, as a Unitary Authority, is designated a WCA and WDA. Halton has an arrangement for MWDA to dispose of their household waste, under the Liverpool City Region (LCR) Waste and Resources Partnership. This waste composition study will support LCR strategic direction of reducing waste and carbon emissions, as set out in the LCR and MRWA Zero Waste Strategies approved in 2025. Study findings will inform the MWDA Future Waste Services programme which will deliver improved waste management services and infrastructure from 2029. It will also assist in both assessing and monitoring our ETS liability. Findings will also be of interest to individual LCR Districts and support improvement of local waste collection services.

Region

UKD7

Value

£250K

Closes

11 Jan 2027

Published

today

MWDA is seeking a creative agency to deliver a strategic behavioural change campaign under the Zero Waste LCR brand. The campaign is to help raise awareness of household food waste and food waste prevention behaviours across the Liverpool City Region.

Region

North West

Closes

13 Jul 2026

Published

4mo ago

Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority (MWDA) is inviting tenders from suitably qualified and experience surveyors to undertake topographic surveys of its operational waste facilities.

Region

North West

Closes

25 May 2026

Published

7mo ago

Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority (MWDA) is a statutory waste disposal authority which, with its District Council partners, takes a lead in advocating and delivering recycling, waste prevention, and the safe and effective disposal of household waste for the residents of Merseyside and Halton (together, the 'Liverpool City Region'). MRWA is committed to achieving the targets of zero waste and net zero carbon, to achieve these targets we believe a whole systems change is needed. This involves changing behaviours and attitudes away from single use, throw away consumerism towards a culture of reuse, repair and avoiding waste where possible. A key aspect of behaviour change is education, and studies show that information delivered academically, culturally and in communities has more benefits and provides long-term changes to behaviours. MWDA is looking to commission an organisation to run a primary school waste education project for pupils aged 5-11 across Liverpool City Region. The education project will focus on engaging with primary aged pupils across the Liverpool City Region to introduce the concept of zero waste, circular economy and climate change to encourage a positive shift in waste and resource behaviours from a young age.

Region

North West

Closes

26 Aug 2025

Published

1y ago

The campaign will focus on encouraging residents across the Liverpool City Region to move up the waste hierarchy, and to acknowledge that while recycling is vital, there are more environmentally friendly ways to reduce waste via reuse. The campaign should highlight environmental, emotional and financial benefits of reuse. MWDA would like to run the campaign over two phases, Phase 1 during October and November 2025 and phase 2 during January-March 2026 Messaging will be provided by MWDA - 4 messages for outdoor during Phase 1, and 4 messages for social media and digital online during Phase 2 The chosen agency will need to provide the design for the messaging and will need to provide a suite of marketing collateral based on the channels/platforms chosen for the campaign. The chosen agency will be asked to plan a 5-month campaign using a potential mix of platforms/channels inc. outdoor billboards and/or transport for Phase 1, and paid for social media, online advertising such as Google Display adverts for Phase 2. The agency will recommend how they think the campaign should be delivered for maximum impact within budget. The tone of the campaign should ideally be empowering, informative, and action-oriented, with a touch of local relevance and positivity and will encourage residents to consider their behaviour with waste, through the lens of reuse. We have used audience segmentation from a previous research project to narrow down our target audience. We will be targeting 'Aspiring Upcyclers' and 'Practical Reusers', aged 18+ who live in the Liverpool City Region. (Behaviour profiles for these target audience can be found later in the document). The target area for the campaign will be the 6 districts of the Liverpool City Region.

Region

North West

Closes

29 Jul 2025

Published

1y ago

Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority is the public facing name of Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority (MWDA). MWDA manages the disposal of household waste for six Local Authority areas in the Liverpool City Region (referred to as the “Districts”), these being Halton Borough Council, Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Liverpool City Council, St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council, Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council and Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council. All the districts are designated Waste Collection Authorities except Halton, who, as a Unitary Authority, is designated a WCA and WDA. Halton has an arrangement for MWDA to dispose of their household waste, under the Liverpool City Region (LCR) Waste and Resources Partnership. This waste composition study will support LCR strategic direction of reducing waste and carbon emissions, as set out in the LCR and MRWA Zero Waste Strategies approved in 2025. Study findings will inform the MWDA Future Waste Services programme which will deliver improved waste management services and infrastructure from 2029. It will also assist in both assessing and monitoring our ETS liability. Findings will also be of interest to individual LCR Districts and support improvement of local waste collection services.

Region

UKD7 - Merseyside

Closes

11 Jan 2027

The Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority is the statutory body responsible for making arrangements for the treatment and disposal of Local Authority Collected Waste collected by the five Waste Collection Authorities of Knowsley Borough Council, Liverpool City Council, Sefton Borough Council, St Helens Borough Council and Wirral Borough Council and, through a separate agreement, providing services for Halton Borough Council (a unitary authority).MWDA's public facing name is the Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority (MRWA or the Authority) which is used throughout this notice. As the Waste Disposal Authority, the Authority is responsible for the transfer, transport, treatment, and disposal of all local authority collected waste within Merseyside, totalling approximately 500,000 tonnes of material each year. The scale of this operation requires a significant amount of infrastructure; this includes a network of transfer facilities for both bulking and onward transportation of waste and recycling, along with treatment and processing facilities both within Merseyside and beyond. MRWA holds two large waste management contracts: a waste disposal contract for residual waste, referred to as the Resource Recovery Contract and a waste management contract for recyclable waste, and the transfer and haulage of residual waste, referred to as the Waste Management and Recycling Contract (WMRC). The WMRC will come to an end in 2029 and a decision has been made to procure future arrangements for the management of recyclable waste and transfer and haulage of recyclables and residual waste. The two current Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF) at Gillmoss and Bidston are aged and are not designed to sort the additional materials required by UK Government's Simpler Recycling initiative, and the Household Waste Recycling Centres(HWRCs) are mostly outdated and in need of modernising to current standards. The replacement for the WMRC will be a disaggregated model and will comprise of four contracts: • Contract 1: HWH - comprising of the HWRCs, Waste Transfer Stations and Haulage • Contract 2: MRF - a new build Materials Recovery Facility • Contract 3: Garden Waste (Merchant Contract) • Contract 4: Food Waste (Merchant Contract) This market engagement document seeks feedback on a number of important considerations for the Authority's procurement of a new MRF facility under the proposed new Contract 2. Further information on this notice can be obtained via the email address referenced in this notice emailing the address listed within this notice The Authority is obliged to comply with the public procurement regime. A fair and transparent process will be undertaken which will be designed to arrive at the right decision without being overly burdensome. To ensure that this forthcoming process is successful for both the Authority and the appointed supplier, it is important to design a procurement process which facilitates the best possible result supported by a contract model which enables innovation, flexibility and encourages true partnership. The Authority's proposed route to market is to run a competitive flexible procedure in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023. The Authority's proposed procurement timetable is set out below. The Authority would like to highlight that the procurement will be undertaken quickly and efficiently. To that end, the Authority has secured internal and external resource to ensure that the timetable is delivered. The Authority will require interested tenderers to mobilise to support the bidding process quickly and then deploy resource to ensure that they meet the key milestones set out below. • Procurement Launch - January 2027 • Dialogue commences with shortlisted Tenderers - April 2027 • Contract Award - October 2028 • Works Commencement - October 2028 • Start of Commissioning (Import and Processing Halls) - Summer 2030 • Closure of Existing MRF and conversion to Export Hall - Autumn 2030 • New MRF Service Commencement Date - Spring 2031 • Contract Expiry Date - September 2053

Region

UKD7 - Merseyside