Household waste and recycling is collected at the kerbside by each of the member authorities of the Merseyside and Halton Waste Partnership.

Residents are asked to separate recyclables – plastics, metals, glass, paper and cardboard – from material that cannot be recycled and these two streams are collected separately, although the way materials are collected varies slightly between the different member authorities.

Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority and its partners are responsible for processing all of the collected recyclable materials at a materials recycling facility before they are then traded as commodities and used to make new things.

They are also responsible for operating fifteen household waste recycling centres across Merseyside and Halton, which allow residents to recycle a wider range of items than is collected at the kerbside.