Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
A rubbish day in Harringay - Sunday 9 July
http://www.harringayonline.com/forum/topics/rubbish
It not a major undertaking, just up one side of the street and down the other, not forgetting the bits at the tops and bottoms of the road on Green Lanes and Wightman.
So far we have the following rubbish photographers
Justin Guest - Pemberton
Kotkas - Mattison and Duckett
Me - Warham, Seymour, Allison and Beresford (and Lausanne if my legs hold out)
Els - Sydney and Raleigh
Osbawn - Avondale
John D - Hampden and Frobisher
DS - Fairfax and Falkland
Hugh - Hewitt
ThaiDi -Hermitage
GraemeTP - Effingham
Gordon T - Cavendish and all points south
Michael
Tags for Forum Posts: dumping, rubbish, veolia, waste collection, waste collection charges
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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If I hear back from Cllr Ahmet I'll get the n touch Zena
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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This was kindly left this morning across my wall and the pavement as the guy collecting the green waste tipped it into a wheelie bin and made his way down the road. Fair play, he is not going to get it all in, but this is a shovel full of organic materiel on the road that was not there before (because I had swept it on Sunday after clearing up around the Pemberton Beds and School entrance).
I have long said the street cleaner should follow the bin wagon down the road on bin day to get all the rubbish that gets left behind, and it is not always organic waste...
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Justin, back in the last century, when I moved to Tottenham, one of my requests to a then local councillor was that street cleaners should sweep streets the day after the refuse trucks came round. And not up to six days later.
That particular councillor - long gone and forgotten - assured me that council officers told her such co-ordination just wasn't possible.
But later I learned that Nocando was her middle name. And it was possible. Though whether there are now enough street cleaners to physically do this I don't know.
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I think part of the problem with the general grime Alan, especially in relation to all the organic litter (leaves/twigs etc) in the gutters and corners, is that since we went from twice weekly cleaning to once a week the cleaners now no longer actually sweep the streets- they simply pick up the large items (cans etc). Hence stuff like this that would previously be cleared is simply allowed to accumulate. This in part then contributes to blocked drains as it is washed into drains when the rain is sufficient to carry it, or mulches down and supports the proliferation of weeds in the various corners making the place look as though nature is wining in attempting to reclaim the street.
I suspect this is a large part of the issue.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Here's how they're selling it through your letterbox
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Gd waste 1.pdf, 3.6 MB
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Permalink Reply by Rachel W on
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I am so ticked off about these new charges. I live on the Scotch Estate in Wood Green and in the ten years since I've been here the collections have got less and less, and the place has become an utter tip. I now have to pay for parking and bin collections which were free when I arrived, and I don't have the space for three wheelie bins and a food bin in my tiny garden.
There's no way folk will pay for bulky rubbish collections, this stuff's going to end up on the pavements.
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Permalink Reply by JJ B on
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Just got my info leaflet from our lovely (not) Council saying that if I want green waste collected from my house then I'll have to pay an extra £75 a year for.....an extra bin in my front garden. They say green waste is still free to dump at Reuse centres.
I don't own a car to take waste there.
My front 'garden' is less than 1.5 metres deep and most of that is taken up by the privet hedge which I will not take down. There is no space for another bin even if I wanted one.
This will now lead to more dumping of 'stuff' on streets, the inclusion of green waste into general waste (less recycling) and inevitably, to increased charges for general waste when teh situation evenatully becomes uncontrolable.
I see no communictaion on what the (lovely) council is doing to better catch those who flytip or put their rubbish out at times when they shouldn't or in places where they shouldn't.
Make Britain great again!
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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Ach why didn't you film and report it!
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Hmmmmm, the plot thickens. Do the right thing.
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Cigarette butts are a real bug bear of mine. The flippant way they are discarded by smokers. I think I have met one person in my life that stubs out a cigarette and puts it in their cig packet so as not to toss it on the floor- you, you know who you are. Well done you.
I used to constantly be asking the teachers at SH Infants not to toss their stubs into the beds they would sit on during their breaks as they are not allowed to smoke on site. I just could not get my head around it. There was a bin a few feet away.
I would flag this with said Councillor. They may not even be aware of it. Perhaps a reminder of the cost of littering if they were to have got a fine by the wardens the council are employing...
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Permalink Reply by Cllr Emina Ibrahim on
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Hi Osbawn
As I am one of only two female Cllrs on Haringey council that has a bad habit of smoking you are likely to be referring to me. My initial reaction to this was hey I was in nowhere near the Salisbury yesterday at 15.15 in fact was in South London and haven't been in the pub during the day for months. But that is kind of beside the point because I would be lying too if I were to say that over the last year I have never absentmindedly stubbed out a cigarette. I hold my hands up and say I am not perfect on this though I always consciously look for a bin. So if you have seen me over the last few years more focussed on my smartphone then being focussed on where I place the remains of a bad habit I have been battling with for years then tap me on the shoulder and say come on now Emina you can do better than that! It's a short sharp shock that doesn't require rudeness as it's enough to make me blush and go a long way to breaking both habits :)
I am not suggesting that of course you didn't see someone that may look like me doing that yesterday, whilst it being me yesterday at 15.15 is impossible the idea that I have never done it is improbable. I am not in the business not accepting my own bad traits. I do make a conscious effort to disgard my cigarette End responsibly but I am also certain there have been times though not yesterday at the Salisbury where I have fallen short of that. I was actually fined many years ago for this outside Hackney Town hall - always say it was the most expensive cigarette I had £80! So I am certainly conscious now and do think fining reduces the bad habit
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Emina. Well done for being brave enough to come back to Osbawn on this, it is not easy to publicly admit your own failings- none of us are perfect. I would say, Osbawn lives on the other side of GL, and he could easily be referring to a St Annes ward Councillor?!
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