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Pupils from Woodside Primary School in Runcorn have helped to remove 8 tonnes of plastic waste from Widnes Warth as part of the ‘Plastic Resolution Project’ developed by the Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust. The students [...]

My name is Daniel Alexander, and for 2 years, I have been working with the Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust (MGET) as a monitoring officer on their Beyond our Bridges project. Each month, I will [...]

A hedge-laying programme led by the MGET has begun on a 900m stretch of the St Helens Canal from the Mersey Gateway Bridge works towards Fiddlers Ferry. The MGET encouraged the bridge contactor, Merseylink [...]

Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust signs the Environmental Services contract with AECOM.

A member of the team building the iconic Mersey Gateway Bridge has won a prestigious national environmental award. Victoria Pollard, Environment Manager at Merseylink, the company building the new bridge, was named the BIG Biodiversity [...]

The Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust has received £190,110 from UK environmental funding body WREN to support its three-year long ‘Beyond Our Bridges’ project in the Upper Mersey Estuary. The unique independent charity, which was created [...]

The Plastic Resolution Project starting this summer aims to work with local schools and community groups in Halton to address the problem of plastic waste pollution on the natural environment. The project is led by [...]

The team building Halton’s landmark new Mersey Gateway bridge has won a national competition that recognises excellence in ecology and environmental management. Some of the Mersey Gateway environment and liaison team celebrate their award win [...]