Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Enterprise dumped for Veolia by Haringey Council
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.
Tags for Forum Posts: Enterprise, recycling, refuse collection, street cleaning, veolia, waste contractors
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Permalink Reply by Lesley Ramm on
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Hopefully this is goo dnews with one company doing both household refuse and recycling rather than split in 2 as it has been. But no good if Veolia as incompetent, lazy and ineddicient as Enterprise are. I tried, and gave up, trying to recycle food waste times due to lack of collection leaving me, in summer, with rotting, rancid food stuff outside my house to deal with. Will wait and see what excuses Veolia's operatives give for failing to colelct every time the temperature drops etc. Perhaps they have a new list of excuses?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Lesley... the council are in charge of recycling. It wasn't Enterprise that were mucking you about.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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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.
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Liz, that link in no way confirms that Enterprise do it all. I only know they don't do the recycling and that it's done by the council because of my truck chasing sagas. If the recycling trucks were operated by a company I would have been able to stop them using my street as a shortcut much easier than I did. A simple letter or phone call gives companies the message.
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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.
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Permalink Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton on
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Liz - is this just for refuse/recycling collection or also for street-cleaning? (I hope both, given that I saw an Enterprise street cleaner puffing away on what I'm pretty sure was a spliff in Wood Green today)
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Permalink Reply by Anette on
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Let's assume it's good, as they can't be worse than Enterprise. I don't know about the other Ladder roads, but Seymour looks like a complete tip all the time now.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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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.
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As far as i know Enterprise and Veolia went head to head for the contract so can only assume Veolia won because they required less to do the job. It is unlikely to be an improvement. Possibly reduced ie fortnightly collections and fines if we fail to recycle enough even if tehy fail to collect as promised. Apart from sponsoring the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition run by the NHM who the hell are Veolia? Are they a British firm/consorium?
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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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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Yes, the same Veolia whose passenger train, the 'Georg Friedrich Handel', went head-to-head at high speed with a freight train on a single track line near Magdeburg on Saturday night. Ten dead. Hope that's not an omen for Veolia refuse and recycling trucks speeding both ways on your single track Ladder roads.
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