Reducing Waste
Greater Manchester smashes One Tonne Plastic Challenge
Greater Manchester residents have gone above and beyond in this summer’s One Tonne Plastic Challenge, collecting more than 3.7 tonnes of litter from 96 neighbourhoods across the city-region.
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Calling All Schools and Colleges: Eco Grants Round 2 Now Open!
We’re looking for our next cohort of schools and colleges to join the 27 schools from this year on a brand-new pupil-led sustainability project within their school community. We’re looking for creative and inspiring projects which tackle waste reduction in food, fashion, textiles and plastics and projects which inspire sustainability lifestyles, during and outside the school day.
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Help Fund School Eco Projects in Greater Manchester
Is your organisation looking to put something back into the community but you’re unsure who needs it and how to make it work?
Here’s how your business can get involved…
September 2025 call-out for Greater Manchester School Eco Refill Shops
We would like to hear from Greater Manchester schools interested in hosting a School Eco Refill Shop from November this year. Find out more…
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Dukesgate Academy’s Team D.A.R.E Presenting at Oxford University
Young leaders from Dukesgate Academy took to the stage at Oxford University to shine a light on and share their work to reduce plastic with their Eco Refill Shop…
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Spring Term sees School Shops bubbling with business
The sun has been shining at the start of Spring term for our second wave of 15 School Eco Refill Shops across Greater Manchester, helping them to open their shops in school playgrounds and create a real buzz for their small business.
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Schools across Greater Manchester awarded eco grants to champion climate action
Young people will be at the forefront of sustainability projects as 29 schools across Greater Manchester receive grants of up to £2,000 for climate and waste reduction initiatives. The scheme, launched in October 2024, aims to empower pupils to bring their eco-ideas to life and drive real change within their communities.
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Celebrate World Refill Day and help shape a more sustainable Greater Manchester
World Refill Day is a global campaign led dedicated to tackling plastic pollution by making it easier for people to live with less waste.
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Bolton Communities Helping to Reduce Food Waste
The Bolton Food Waste Toolkit is a community-inspired and designed toolkit that is the end product of two years of development and testing out in the community. The idea originated from ‘how can we bring communities together around climate change’ as part of Bryony O’Connor’s PhD.
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School Eco Refill Pilot – The Results
During October 2023 recruitment commenced for a small number of schools across Greater Manchester to be part of a unique pilot programme which promoted reuse and refill within schools and their wider communities. The project was supported by GMCA and delivered by Pupils Profit.
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NEW Greater Manchester School Eco Refill Shops – now 25 across the region!
Following the success of the first wave of School Eco Refill Shops over the last 12 months, there are now a further 15 schools running their own small business, selling a range of environmentally friendly refill products across Greater Manchester.
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School Eco Refill Shop at the Green Summit
Children from the the Pupils Profit, St Margaret Mary’s Primary School Eco Refill Shop were very happy to tell delegates about the benefits of refill and offer them the chance to buy their lovely products
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