Two Bolton community groups are set to benefit from funding to tackle waste and encourage recycling.

Twenty-six community groups across Greater Manchester will benefit from the £220,000 in funding to support the innovative sustainability projects.

The money has been raised in innovative scheme not to throw another man's trash.

Now in its second year, the Recycle for Greater Manchester (R4GM) Community Fund has awarded a new tranche of funding for local community and voluntary sector groups focused on creative solutions for recycling, repairing or reusing household waste throughout the city-region.

Securing between £3,500 and £20,000, each of the successful 26 groups was recognised for their commitment to sustainability and delivering social value for their communities.

Two of the groups include Bolton FM: Recycle Roadshow and Bolton Lads and Girls Club.

The Community Buds project in Bury is also creating a community garden using people's waste, they intend to bring members of the community out of isolation and help them to overcome mental health barriers.

Other projects also address wider community issues including mental health, food poverty and sustainability, creating extra social benefits for the communities they work within.

In this way, the fund not only contributes towards environmental improvements, but to residents of Greater Manchester as a whole, creating new opportunities and supporting individuals to have a better quality of life.

Leader of Bolton Council, Cllr Martyn Cox, who is also the GMCA lead for the Green City-Region and Waste and Recycling, said: “Once again we’ve had an amazing response to the Community Fund, and I want to congratulate all the successful applicants.

“They are putting forward innovative and important solutions to help cut waste and promote a more circular economy – all while benefiting the people and places where we live.

“Community-led projects like these can not only support green jobs and skills in our towns and cities, but also crucially offer help and support to residents during the exceptional challenges of this cost-of-living crisis.”

The annual fund of £220,000 comes from the sale of preloved household items in a joint initiative by R4GM and waste contractor SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK (SUEZ).

Items donated are prevented from going to waste and given a new lease of life at affordable prices, with all of the money raised going back to good causes through the annual fund.

An additional donation is also made to the Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity, supporting efforts to address homelessness and rough sleeping.