A frisson of excitement (or is it trepidation?) at the Community Volunteer news desk as we learn that council waste contractors, Enterprise, are to be replaced by Veolia beginning in mid-April.
The company was chosen from a final shortlist of two at a meeting of the council’s cabinet on Tuesday, January 25 and the contract between Haringey council and Veolia, who will deliver recycling, refuse, and street cleansing services for the next 14 years, is now being finalised.
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Lesley... the council are in charge of recycling. It wasn't Enterprise that were mucking you about.
No, don't think this is the council directly mucking you about, Enterprise does it all , there's no in-house collectors any more, although the council is responsible for monitoring that it is done up to standard.
The contracts for mixed material recycling are held by Greenstar and Bywaters, while Agrivert Ltd, operates the Edmonton facility for organic waste recycling on behalf of London Waste Ltd.
I stand corrected. You are right, John. The internal council crew collect the recycling. So it is the council not collecting your organic waste recycling. Did they give any particular reason? For example, one problem that arose a while back was that people were using the wrong kind of bio bags to put out the waste and the operatives were just leaving it but without an explanation as to why.
The new operators, Veolia, will also handle the recycling after April so hopefully you can go back to recycling your food waste, Lesley.
Veolia will more than likely have to take on the existing staff. Question is, will their systems and training (and incentives such as pay) be any better. And is the council paying Veolia any more for the contract? Probably less.
Veolia Environnement S.A. is a multinational French company with activities in four main areas - water supply and water management, waste management, energy and transport services.
In 2007 it had revenues of $47bn and employed around 300,000 people. It is quoted on Euronext Paris and the New York Stock Exchange.
Between 2000 and 2003 the company was known as Vivendi Environnement, having been spun off from the Vivendi conglomerate, most of the rest of which became Vivendi. Prior to 1998 Vivendi was known as Compagnie Générale des Eaux.
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