Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Dear councillors ... please organise for a CLEAN Green Lanes!!
Green Lanes does not have to look like this. The so-called re-development hasn't even finished & it's already filthy. Why?
Why isn't Veoila down to do this at least weekly?; (from this post)
So Dearest councillors can you pretty please find out for us what is going to be done to rectify this quite unnecessary situation ... and let us all know here? Ta
Green Lanes - Live well for now!
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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
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You've got me thinking, people shouldn't be allowed to pick back berries themselves from public bushes, only a well regulated company of pickers should address that particularly thorny challenge. Same goes for cycling, should be banned, only public transport is really safe after all and don't get me started on unlicensed teenage babysitters.
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Give me the fresh air of freedom and a true free market economy tempered only by local democracy and innovative systems disrupt cartel like contracts, not expensive beurocratic monopolies and a risk averse phobic rule book please.
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Everyone picks up rubbish bags and if people follow the basic health and safety rules they should be allowed to pick up other people's rubbish and even receive a payment for doing so if it can help make the place cleaner in my mind.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Ah, the fresh air of freedom
. Everyone will without fail always follow the basic health and safety rules when they come across discarded syringes and other "clinical sharps"; or asbestos; and other dangerous & toxic substances.I look forward to seeing your flatbed truck with you and your business partners running the pilot scheme. But can this please be near your house, not mine.
(Click on the photo of the tosher sieving sewage to enlarge. Smithsonian source here.)
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I'm off to pick some black berries before some beurocrat declares it illegal under health safety code 75891.
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Permalink Reply by markb on
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The Belgian scheme is not that great. It's not an incentive based scheme, it's effectively an extra tax on well behaved citizens. Jerks will just fly tip instead.
At 2 euro for a 60L bag, you're easily looking at close to 10 euro/ month just for bin bags if you have a family. Sure, you can recycle and use cheaper bags, but do you really want to stretch that single expensive bin bag to last you a month? Gets pretty nasty. It's just a 2 euro/week tax.
Of course, enterprising city councillors then start ratcheting up the cost of the bin bags over time.
It has even led to gangs counterfittings bin bags and selling them through cornershops on the sly.
It would be more effective to address the problem upstream in the supply chain and force manufacturers and retails to reduce packaging (hello, Amazon).
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Permalink Reply by Robert Pike on
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Was in the very attractive Edinburgh urban village of Stockbridge at the weekend. Flats served by large 110L bins which sit in road every 3 car parking spaces. Bins picked up by side mounted jib on bin lorry. Why can't this happen in ladder streets? Does LBH policy ultimately prefer wheelie bins even when HMOs are on rise?
True...elsewhere did see mattresses invading thestreet.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Thanks Robert, we need people to bring back from other areas other systems and ideas re waste collection. Stockbridge is a beautiful place. Also noticed their collection system when I was there, which you've described above.
Must add what I saw in Norwich once I've uploaded the photo.
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