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 Nigel Tuppen on
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Also Nick that space is for bikes so people will not have to use cars,you can't take that away from them
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Holmesdale rd? They don't have 16 people per house do they from what I remember.
Although there is a stench there after one week,remember when I walked to the station
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By the way Nick,August is when everyone goes on holiday so you have not seen a true picture
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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OK let me chuck in my personal preferred solution to all this (again). Maybe your area could be a pilot, as it's obviously not working for anyone.
No household bins. Big paladins on the road, every few houses. Green/black. Both emptied say 3x a week (or maybe more). Cost of collection is the same, as fewer tasks but more often. Like these, in Brighton, where the houses are five storeys
The bins are a bit overwhelmingly big but could be subject of a decorating contest, like previous mentions of the street phone box connection things - can add pics if required.
To be preceded by a blitz of information in the road - leaflets, door knocking, no house left behind. Warnings that if its not got right, there will be a return to the stinky old system.
The problem, really, is one of behaviour change. The only thing that stinks is food. Food belongs in the food bins (which need to be bigger). These are emptied weekly already. It's all about the training, and then the policing. It costs, but so do re-visits, and so does dysentery.
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Sounds like an option.
Please remember although I own a whole oroperty,not converted,some houses are owned by collection of Landlords who are abroad and keep no eye on their property.
It is difficult to enforce the food waste when foxes,mice and vermin knock so many down and Council have not provided for the amount of people in individual rooms(bedsits)
Our house was not even informed of the fortnightly collection !
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our food bins here have handles that lock them down - or maybe our foxes are more wimpy than the butch N6 ones. They do need to be bigger though, or have more of them.
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In Finchley the food went missing from these bins,I was told it was not an animal.
The residents are hiding them
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Haringey will not enforce as they cannot tell which flat is responsible if used incorrectly.
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They are not even telling off their HFH tenants for dumping clearance stuff weekly into our bins.
Shame we have no locks
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Training, persuasion, door knocking, translation. It has to happen, everyone has to get used to this, globally not just in N6. We can't go on both burying our land in mountains of waste, and throwing away the stuff that can be recycled. The leftover rubbish is only where products are mixed, and is a small amount. If it's only one material, it can be recycled. Everyone knows this, even your most scummy neighbours.
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I agree, it is a nuisance that people use the bins incorrectly. We also have a very active transient community which makes it harder to educate. I did ask Haringey to re leaflet but no joy.
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Yes they seem to help in loads of languages to people on benefits so they can come and get more money,but when it comes to our health, nothing yet.
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