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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Garden waste collection

As discussed before the new charge for collecting garden waste starts 23rd October. This means pay £75 per year, and that’s to start with, or your garden waste will not be collected. You can of course take your waste to recycling centres. This is voluntary the council say and no one will be forced to pay the charge. So my question to Haringey is , since all these changes and charges have come or coming into effect and you say use the refuse centres if you don’t want to pay, why are you closing the Park View Rd Centre the same day just as garden waste period is starting? Is this not a way of forcing people to pay the new charges? What do you think people?

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Permalink Reply by Gina Fenton on October 13, 2017 at 10:48
If you put it in the biodegradable sacks for for £55 pa they will continue to compost it with the food waste. The joke is that the same refuse lorry with two compartments will continue to trundle past your house every week but unless you pay the fee you won't be able to use it! I am going to see what happens if I lob my own biodegradable bag in. If imprisoned, hope to gain support for the 'Tottenham one'?

On a lighter note I'm sure a campaign to reverse this was launched. Anyone know what happened to that?
Permalink Reply by Hugh on October 13, 2017 at 10:52
That’s £55 for 60 sacks. I’ve asked how much additional sacks cost.
Permalink Reply by Hugh on October 13, 2017 at 13:49

If you use up your 60 sacks, you'll need to pay a further £55 for another 60 sacks. That's 92 pence per plastic sack. It'll be no surprise to learn that you can buy much cheaper sacks but Veolia tell me that they "cannot collect any garden waste which is not in our refuge (sic) bags".

This seems like very odd logic to me. I'm assuming that Haringey see the link between property size (and therefore very often income) and the likely need to use sacks. They say on their website, "If you feel you do not have space for a standard sized 240 litre bin then a supply of biodegradable sacks, or smaller 140 litre bins are available for £55 a year."

What they don't mention is the 60 sack limit. What they don't say is that if you live in a prpoerty which can easily accommodate yet another bin, they will collect 240 litres a week of garden waste (using the standard size bin) for £75 pa. However, if you live in a small property, they will only collect 50-75 litres per week (for £55 pa). To have then collect 20 litres a week will cost you more like £200+ per year. 

Hmm - something wrong here. 

Permalink Reply by Christopher Lewis on October 13, 2017 at 13:38

Just put it in the black bin.  I will.  There are no gudelines saying you can't do this and if everyone does it they will have to review it. 

Permalink Reply by Christopher Lewis on October 13, 2017 at 13:44

Actually, Violia as saying that you can't put it in the black bins but are they going to go though all the rubbish and check it? 

Permalink Reply by Gina Fenton on October 13, 2017 at 13:46
I don't think they will review it. Everything in the black bin gets incinerated, I went to see the incinerator at an open day many years ago. It was interesting. Their sustainability credentials are quite good. They feed energy into the national grid, and the emissions are very carefully filtered to something that was way below regulatory targets, or so they told us. So perhaps putting it in the general waste bin isn't so bad. Perhaps I will do that too.
Permalink Reply by Christopher Lewis on October 13, 2017 at 13:57

I like it!  Let's do our bit for fueling new energy 

Permalink Reply by Gina Fenton on October 13, 2017 at 15:29
I have just checked their leaflet, they say 'put anything you can't (piut in the recycle bin) into general waste. So that means garden waste. Actually it's what a lot of my less green neighbours already do. So I guess that's what is going to happen! I will also restart my compost heap, which I had kind of given up on because it was much easier to give it to the council.
Permalink Reply by Gordon T on October 13, 2017 at 11:04

I wonder how long the queue of cars will be on Western Road the first Sunday afternoon after 23rd October??

Permalink Reply by Alyson on October 13, 2017 at 15:02

Maybe some people should turn up and take photos - someone started a similar request a while ago (about litter dumping? traffic problem? Wightman Road?) but it wasn't near me so I don't quite remember.

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on October 13, 2017 at 15:18
Permalink Reply by John D on October 13, 2017 at 11:19

It seems like only a couple of years since they closed the recycling centre where the new Sainsbury's is going up and opened the shiny new centre on Park Road. More of your money wasted. Is there nobody on the Council who can see beyond the end of their nose ? What is going to happen to the Park Road site ? Anybody from Grainger nosing around ?

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