Tags for Forum Posts: dumping, rubbish, veolia, waste collection, waste collection charges
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...
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.
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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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.
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!
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...
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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