Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Update on Missing Recycling Collections
It seems like there continues to be as much rough as there is smooth with the new Veolia recycling collections. My food recycler lies a mouldering and is abuzz with flies.
So I called Veolia and they said that the crews are working overtime and they will do their best to catch up over the weekend but there are no guarantees.
Tags for Forum Posts: new recycling bins, rubbish, veolia, veolia missed collections
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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Our (Crouch End) recycling is still waiting collection. They were due today but did not show.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Thanks James.
A quick poll on Twitter suggests that as well as Crouch End, half the Ladder, Woodlands Park, Hornsey Park missed collection. Bruce Grove missed a week completely then collected a day late. South End of Ladder collected a day late. Half of Stroud Green on time but the other half late.The Roundway a day late.
Also (via Stroud Green WI), recycling is now collected by two trucks - dry in one and wet in other rather than split trucks (raising questions re vehicle emissions?).
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Wait... . They came at around 5pm tonight here (Cecile Park) to collect recycling. They also collected garbage earlier today.
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Nilgun Canver has confirmed on another thread that 19 roads were missed today and should be done tomorrow.
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Permalink Reply by Jo Preddy on
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still waiting for all mine to be collected. We've not got from for a bin so bags all over the place. Hornsey church tower area
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Permalink Reply by Carol Tennant on
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We haven't been collected in Woodlands Park Rd yet (should have been Friday). Did Veolia have any suggestions regarding what to with the excess we now have? We still have the old small bins - might they collect from those if we fill them as well?
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Permalink Reply by Zena Brabazon on
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Hello Carol and everyone
The new waste collection arrangements are the main topic for the St. Ann's and Harringay Area Forum which is on Thursday 5 July starting 6.30 pm at the Cyprus Kitchen, 628-630, Green Lanes, N8 0SD. Liz Ixer is leading the discussion so residents can give their perspective with the Council listening and responding to peoples' experiences and suggestions for improvement.
Please click here for the formal agenda on the Council's website.
I hope you will all come.Zena Brabazon
Councillor, St. Ann's Ward
Chair, St. Ann's and Harringay Area Forum and Committee
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Well, the recycling collection is happening right now. I'm just waiting to see if they'll take the excess I put out in the old boxes... And they have, so that's very good, if very late... Do we think they'll be back on track by the end of the week?
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Permalink Reply by Stuart on
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So today they managed to empty my large green recycling wheelie as per the schedule - and completely ignored the food recycler which had 4 full bags of mouldering food waste in it - and which was right next to the recycling wheelie. Shambles. . .
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I can't believe all this - with what the Council and Veolia should know about waste management, recycling and the borough by now, why are the new arrangements such a fiasco?
Our recycling hasn't been collected this week (our collection day is Monday), so I rang to report this but got fed up with being held in a queue with no indication as to how long I would have to wait, so emailed instead. I've received a standard response and now have a reference number, but the recycling still hasn't been collected. In addition, I put out a bag of garden waste last Monday, which was missed, but I managed to catch up with the truck by running down the road with the bag in hot pursuit; one of the guys took it from me, emptied it into the truck and chucked the bag back at me in what can only be described as a surly manner.
In our street on the Ladder some residents have put their now-redundant green boxes on the pavement, assuming that these will be taken away by Veolia/the Council (our understanding is that they aren't going to be collected, unless there's been a change of policy). There are also recycling and ordinary wheelie bins on the pavement as well; clearly people are confused. Where properties have been divided into flats, the front gardens are just full of wheelie bins. Front gardens round here aren't that big, and it's a real shame that residents who enjoy gardening and who make an effort to brighten the area by planting up window boxes and by having other plants in their front gardens are finding this more difficult because of a surfeit of wheelie bins. Yes, recycling is meant to improve the borough's green credentials, but presumably residents in the areas where the new arrangements are taking effect, and who have small front gardens, won't be rushing to enter Haringey In Bloom in the future (is that still going, by the way?) as there won't be room for any blooms because of all the bins! Gah!
As for the information given to residents before the start of the new arrangements, I agree with what Liz Ixer and others have said: it was simply inadequate, and a leaflet can be easily disregarded, again as the Council and Veolia should know by now. We all know about the swingeing cuts Haringey and other boroughs have been subject to, but face-to-face contact with local residents to explain the new arrangements and answer residents' questions should have been a priority, as should making sure that Veolia was able to actually deliver the revised waste management and recycling contract.
Plus, when walking along Wightman Road earlier today, I could clearly see that most of the bins were full to overflowing. There seems to be a problem on that street too.
I'm unable to come to the next St Ann's/Harringay Area Forum next week as I'm working, but (to Liz and anyone else who may be attending and who is also concerned about these issues) please feel free to bring my observations to the attention of the meeting.
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Permalink Reply by folko ono on
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I live in Tottenham. Mine was missed this week too. And for some reason my house and next door's seem to be the only ones who haven't been given the new bins. Next door's front garden is a bit small so I can understand why they might not be given one but we have plenty of room! Do I really have to phone the council to get one? I thought they just gave them to you.
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