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A rubbish day in Harringay - Sunday 9 July

There has been a bit of support for taking photos of rubbish left on The Ladder streets on one day in the summer - Sunday 9 July. The idea is that all the photos are posted on this discussion, one post per street with pics, and then forwarded to the Cabinet Member for Environment.

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 kotkas on July 9, 2017 at 19:43
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on July 10, 2017 at 8:35
Can I suggest you also post the pictures onto Haringeys Twitter feed and Facebook pages
Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on July 10, 2017 at 8:38
Some of Lothair Rd South, a street they clean once a month if that.
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Permalink Reply by ThaiDi on July 10, 2017 at 8:54

A few more from yesterday 2.30pm.

Hermitage road near the Green Lanes junction (this cycle lane is always blocked with rubbish bags)

Finsbury park avenue

Green Lanes (very near the corner of Hermitage road) - those fridge units have been there since Friday at least

Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on July 10, 2017 at 9:51

Pemberton was relatively clear of large items, but the one observation I would make is it was grubby! Stupidly I did not take a picture of the pancake shaped rat I put in the bin, or the McDonald rubbish someone so kindly left on my own wall on Saturday night. What I did take pics of were lots of tins, bottles and various jetsam.

What I also notices was lots of organic (leaf and tree etc) litter that was accumulating in gutters and corners. That and a lot of weeds. I saw a Veolia machine spraying weed killer in Croosh-End last week, clearly that sort of treatment is too good for us on this side of the tracks (actually I doubt it would work given the number of parked cars in the way...). I get the impression litter is picked (once a week vs twice as was) and the cleaners no longer sweep the streets as they used to. So, anything that cannot be picked up is left.

I also took some shots of the dirt and grim that our friends at Yasha seem happy to leave us to wade through. Sunday was a good day, by the end of the day there would be a lot more than this. Oh, and the broken curb stone that cannot be repaired- due to lorries puling onto the pavement to part and offload.

I think what is needed are two things here:

  1. We need to keep our patch clean- and encourage neighbors to keep our patches clean- like the good old days. It seems no one else will do this
  2. The Traders need clean up after themselves. They are happy to make money in our community, they should also bear some responsibility for keeping the area around their shops free of dirt and litter, especially if they are the ones to have created it

Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on July 10, 2017 at 9:52

From our friends at Yasha

Permalink Reply by JulieB on July 10, 2017 at 10:48

The council did spray weed killer on our weeds (Conway Rd and surrounding roads) a while ago, and I think they must have cleared up all the brown and dead stuff a couple of weeks later.

Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on July 10, 2017 at 9:52

And on the bright side, then I saw this! All is not lost

Permalink Reply by Nick G-T on July 10, 2017 at 21:26

In mid May, I queried with the council when the weed spaying would be undertaken. I was told the schedule is late April into May. It wasn't actually done until late May/early June by which time the weeds had gone to seed, exacerbating the problem. In previous years the guy on the ride on buggy was pretty thorough, however I noticed the weeds continue to grow in the gullies, so half a job done.

Permalink Reply by JulieB on July 10, 2017 at 10:49

Such a great idea, I was away yesterday so couldn't join in. Although I'm not on the ladder anyway.

Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on July 10, 2017 at 10:51

Does not matter Julie. Do your own street today and post your findings. What affects the ladder affects us all locally.

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