Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Angry at changes to waste service
I got my leaflet today stating that from October you have to pay £75 a year for garden waste collection. Further bulk collections will cost £25 for 4 items then £10 per item. If the dustman break your wheelie bin or you don't have one you have to pay £30.
I rang Haringey who transferred me to veola. Veola say it's Haringey council who decided they need to save 20 million for social care.
I am disgusted. I have lived in this borough for 53 years and all this is going to do is make people dump rubbish in the streets in a borough that has the worst fly tipping in England.
As far as saving money for social care, already the council tax bill went up to cover this. Haringey council should stop wasting money on other things.
I for one will not pay £75 and I suggest Haringey think again..
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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The strict word of the law requires you to return to your neighbours any branches you cut off that were overhanging your property from their plants. That is one way of dealing with it. Alternatively small amounts of green waste can be put in your regular dustbin. Not the best way to be friendly to the environment but it is an option
I wonder if neighbours on friendly terms might share a green waste bin. We gotta find some way to live with this.
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Permalink Reply by 1vut8bf3om5m9 on
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When I saw this thread this morning I texted my neighbour and set up the syndicate for this partially because of the cost/benefit discussed here (£75 for e.g, 6 uses p/a) and partially because I don't have the space for another bin.
Ideally we complete on our agreement and get maybe one more party. Garden cuttings can wait a week or two in the sacks if someone else is using the bin.
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I would love to return my neighbours vines! I am under attack from 3 different sides and 5 different vines. Am growing a pinot noir in the hope that it seeks revenge...
It did cross my mind to talk to my neighbours about sharing a garden bin and I probably will do. However, we all have the same sized front 'garden', even smaller for some of the half houses, I don't think anyone has space unless we draw up a schedule for weekly ownership. Blimey - perhaps we can invoice Haringey Council for administration charges.
I shall not panic just yet - a friend of mine said a council he lived in had a pay as you go garden sacks, so I shall wait until Veolia update their website with the 'other options' and see what those options are.
We don't have a car so perhaps in future you may see me spring up here with a 'anyone going to the tip this weekend? Have you got space in your car for some vines?' post twice a year.
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Permalink Reply by JoeW on
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Syndicates are just socialism by the back door, Knavel! (Or in this case, by the front gate).
Am I the only one who can see this ruse for what it is - a Corbynist plot to turn Haringey into a massive compost-eating anarchist commune?
The best response would be to invest any spare capital you have in a fleet of the new bins then recruit an army of artful dodgers from the poorer neighbourhoods to wheel the bins from door to door, collecting prunings for a few pence from anyone too feckless to know what else to do with them.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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I imagine, like many people on this thread myself included, people will conclude that £75 a year for half a dozen bags of garden waste (mainly in the growing season) is actually very expensive and will not sign up for the scheme. This will then mean that the garden waste collection will be cut altogether as the council will argue that there was "no demand*". A way of cutting a service but making it look like it was down to lack of consumer demand.
*There is, of course, demand but many households would struggle to find that extra £75. I forsee an increase in dumping, which will surely cost us more in the long run. Looks like false economy to me.
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Permalink Reply by Olly on
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Yes this does feel like a pre-emptive strike to cancel the service. Were only going to get a increase in burning of garden waste as well. So much for the improvements to air quality we all need.
They may well have some takeup if they offered spread payments (I'm assuming it will be a one off payment required, nothing on the leaflet say otherwise) as well as keeping the sack service as opposed to the bin-only approach.
Personally I'm going to put the £75 towrads a shredder and try to use as much as possible as mulch with the rest probably going in the black bin.
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Permalink Reply by JulieB on
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Like lots of you, our garden is small so we only have enough garden waste to fill the small hessian bag 4 or 5 times a year. So I won't be paying £75 per year, and I don't want yet another bin at the front of the house. I've just checked and we can take garden waste to the recycling centres which is what I'll probably do, unless it's a very small amount which will probably go in our black land fill bin.
I agree that changing us £30 to replace bins that can only be damaged by Viola during collections (which is what happened to our bin last year) or stolen is hardly fair.
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what do people think if we started a petition? Would people sign it? I think charging this fee on top of high council tax is disgusting. Further Haringey get paid from the recycling yet do they put this money back into services? No they spend it on councillors expences, moving offices and funding schemes like the hotel in station Rd which they are going to subsidise what about spending 86 thousand on changing the Haringey logo? I'm disgusted and made it clear to Haringey my garden waste is going in the black bin
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Permalink Reply by tigha on
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please dont put your garden waste in the black bin, it wont hurt veolia but it will our environment
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Permalink Reply by Gina Fenton on
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Of course everyone will put it in the black bin!
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