Liverpool One launches ‘pioneering’ recycling facility, offers brands more options

The Liverpool One retail and leisure destination is taking a deep dive into recycling via “a pioneering new sustainability facility with the installation of an innovative Mobile Segregation Unit (MSU)”.

It said it’s a first in the industry and that the patented MSU process will “significantly boost recycling rates” across the Grosvenor-operated mall with the destination aiming to achieve a recycling rate of 90% of waste by 2025, “significantly improving on the current rate of 41%, and 46% higher than the UK average”.

Supplied by The Green Block, “the MSU allows for the sorting of co-mingled waste into 15 individual waste streams instead of the current five, meaning more items will be recycled, and allowing brands a better range of recycling options for commercial waste”. 

It also enables the digital tracking of waste, which became UK law this spring and will be mandatory by next April.

The MSU has previously only been used at major transport hubs in Britain making Liverpool One its first retail-led application.

It’s only the latest in a series of commercial sustainability initiatives undertaken by Liverpool One since opening, including the installation of solar panels; 80,000 bees being housed on the roof; and two ‘bug hotels’ on Chavasse Park to encourage biodiversity.