Community
Hello and welcome to the new community page on our website.
We hope you find the information we have gathered here interesting and helpful. The community page will be used to keep you up to date with what we are doing with community organisations and groups across Greater Manchester. We are committed to working more closely and effectively with the community sector in Greater Manchester. We have a Community Liaison Officer whose job it is to find new and innovative ways in which we can support and involve the community and voluntary groups in waste prevention, recycling and reuse activities.
If you have any good ideas about new recycling initiatives or projects that you want to set up have a look at our community recycling information page. If you would like to set up a community recycling project then please use the contact us form.
North West Community Waste Network covers Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. It is part of a national Community Recycling Network. The purpose of the Network is to provide development and business support to the community waste sector.
For the last three years we have provided support funding for the Network’s development worker. This has enabled us to be actively involved in helping the growth and development of community waste sector in Greater Manchester and encouraging closer work with the districts recycling officers. You can contact the network development officer Ian Scott via the contact form
There will be exciting news on recycling, waste prevention and reuse in the community and voluntary sector on our site over the next few months so keep logging on to make sure you are up to date with what is happening...
LOOK AT OUR NEW GIVE AND TAKE TOOLKIT
We have now added a new toolkit which will help you run a give and take day in your local community. Don't know what a give and take event is? Basically a cashless local exchange event where people exchange unwanted items for something they do want. You may have heard them called swap shops. The purpose is to prevent reusable items being thorn away as waste. The reason for your event maybe social, just to get people in a community together, or it might be environmental. With a give and take event these two objectives work well together.
