Pupils from year 9 of Woodchurch High School took part in a series of interactive activities and workshops to try to understand the causes of air pollution in their area and explore potential solutions.

Wirral Council has been successful in a bid for £27,500 to put into action plans to remove discarded, dried chewing gum from local streets.

The next step for Wirral Council appointing a contractor to operate its Recycling, Waste and Street Cleansing service from August 2027 has been reached today with the publishing of ‘Invitation to Tender’ documents.

At the next meeting of the Environment, Climate Emergency and Transport Committee, members will consider an update on the council’s new five-year Waste and Street Cleansing Strategy – entitled ‘Rethinking Waste: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover 2025-2030’.

The flexible plastics trial will run from June to August 2025 and will help the council and its partners to understand about the collection and processing involved with recycling these items and how it will work in Wirral.

Residents who want to sign up to the garden waste collection service in Wirral have until May 20th to subscribe in order to ensure they receive the first collection of the new ‘season’ in June.

The groundwork to create 15 new wildflower meadows in Wirral has now been completed - in time to attract an increasing number of pollinators to the borough over the summer.

A review of the ‘Cool 2’ strategy is now underway alongside plans to set new actions and objectives for the next five years. It is residents’ feedback on the new strategy that is now being sought as part of the public consultation process.

Households that already subscribe to the fortnightly service and pay by direct debit should have automatically had their subscription renewed.

Beginning in West Kirby on Friday 25th April, to the last one in Wirral Country Park on Monday 28th, there are eight events scheduled over the weekend in Wirral where people are invited to take a stroll and discover the natural world that surrounds them.

Across six events, there was incredible community spirit and partnership working - people of all ages pulling together in an effort to make their neighbourhoods cleaner and greener.

A review of the ‘Cool 2’ strategy is now underway alongside plans to set new actions and objectives for the next five years. It is residents’ feedback on the new strategy that is now being sought as part of the public consultation process.