Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Fortnightly Rubbish Collection in Milton Road N6
Had mice infestation for first time last year due to the amount of rubbish,we are not the only ones There is terrible stench in the street and now with the maggots from 3 over full bins we also have flies in basement and upper ground floors.
Cannot have windows open as stench is so bad.
After one week of emptying ,the 3 bins outside our property are overfull and the residents have nowhere to put their rubbish so it has stayed indoors and Therevis a backlog.
I personally have on a weekly basis taken sackloads to the dump,I am refusing to do Haringey's job anymore though.
The residentliving in the basement flat could take no more of this unnecessary filth and has left.
We have foxes excreting by the basementand front door regularly as they feed from torn bags in the pavement.
Also on the pavement are tin lids for animals to cut paws on,used condoms and rats. all you see when you walk down street is rubbish,OLD rubbish,flies,wasps and maggots
When I complained re amount of rubbish generated since fortnightly collection started I was told to get an extra bin,reported to enforcement,Veolia and haringey customer services.
Our green bin is often used as a rubbish bin so is not be very useful
There are only 5 of us at present,what happens when we are full house.
Many houses in this street have 4 people on each floor,so 16 in the house,in this and surrounding roads I highly recommend an exception to your fortnightly collection and bring back weekly or more in this highly densely populated area.
Outside our house today are 3 overfull bins,with maggots and rubbish on the floor.It is not a good way to live.
A return to weekly collection would prevent the health and safety issues resulting from the fortnightly collection.
Do we not deserve a better standard if living?
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Why not an option ? Their choice, but I hand washed nappies for my 4 children.
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Permalink Reply by Nigel Tuppen on
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Some people live in accommodation where this is not always possible to wash and dry,eg if you don't have a garden and drying indoors causes mould issues .
Most parents I know leave house 6.30am for childminders and return at 7.30, it is not practical and drying indoors unhealthy for our lungs and for the buildings.
The 5 day week is not there snymore,people work 6 sometimes 7 days to make ends meet and to pay their taxes
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When do those parents ever get to see their children ?
When do they do their parenting ?
that's awful
How do they dry their normal laundry ?
Take your points Nigel, but hand washing is an option open to many.
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The bins have been on the streets by the wall.
Unfortunately the swarm of flies have got into the basements,the upper ground,and today Saturday the first floor has them.
So I am moving the bins towards the middle of the pavement not nearer the living quarters.
The situation isvHORRIFIC
It is safer for any pedestrians to use the road,God help the dogs paws
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this is the situation in Bruce Grove I already rise the problem with Haringey but still waiting for response .
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Kust, below is the current situation in the Miltons.
My colleague, Cllr. Bob Hare took these photos yesterday, in my company. Like your photos, it shows maggots.
The summer exposes this public health effect of the council's one-size-fits-all policy, of having general rubbish collection at fortnightly intervals. The council will likely pride itself on its commitment to ecology and wildlife diversity – but this is ridiculous.
Like the barrier behind the bin, the council continues to stonewall.
Bin in the Miltons | 2014-vii-25 | photographs by Dr. Robert Hare, Highgate Councillor
If this occurred in a privately owned restaurant, prosecutions might be in order.
Because bin collection is the responsibility of Haringey Council ... isn't it a nice day?
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Is the problem really two weekly collections? Or is it using the wrong bin for the wrong purpose?
Small point - it looks like food has been put in the recycling bin or the waste bin. If it had been in a food waste bin, flies would not have been able to access the food so easily. That said the craft Haringey foxes seem to have no difficulty opening a food bin and helping themselves to its content.
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I think the residents have stopped using the food waste bins as they kept being tipped over by the foxes leaving food waste strewn everywhere.
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Walking down Milton road this morning was very depressing,again the land that time forgot.
Again stench,outside my house there were 5 full bins overflowing with maggots,flies circling into the air.
I moved 2 back to next door.
In my front yard 15 cigarette buts and in between the bins rubbish.
I felt like crying
The extra bin,now total of 3 is obviously getting filled up at night by people in other roads who are sick of the council policy.
When my bins are emptied I am taking the extra one away since have had extra rubbish outside my house with extra bin.
There are 4 people in the house this week,if we were full capacity where is the rubbish to go.
I feel the council is concentrating efforts on other stuff,
This is BASIC,and yes zi have paid my c.tax and HMO licence fee but am extremely unhappy about this disgusting situation
We actually need 2 pick ups a week for amount if people in the roads
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By the way,there is another post ferocious biting insects on this site.
What could be exacerbating that?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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The approach to waste collection in streets like The Milton is just illogical. Where each building houses multiple households and there is no space within the boundary of each building to have a bin, I imagine anyone could have guessed that this would be the outcome. Quite apart from the situation people living in areas like this have ended up in the extra cost to the council of clearing the over flow, the pavement mess and the infestations they now have to deal with surely eats into any savings made from the waste contract. Any contract like this one must have exceptions.
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I have seen more rubbish on the streets from people the Council have housed (HFH)in nearby houses to us.
They use our bins to save on being charged at the dump,I was made to have an extra bin as all their non household rubbish was placed on a daily basis outside my property.maybe the dump charges should be dropped for those people,after all they are trying to make a living from house clearance,you may have seen the vans.
They bring a whole houses rubbish home,keep the good stuff they can sell on then dump in our bins or in the pavement.
Perhaps the council should vet the people they place as my experience has been extremely bad
Could the Council not fine those who regularly drop cigarette buts too?
Some families produce more rubbish than separate individuals.
This is difficult to monitor,
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