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 John D on
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It's unfair to blame the bin men and street cleaners - in my experience they work very hard and very well. It's the management and organisation that's unsatisfactory and, as you say, the residents who create the mess in the first place.
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Permalink Reply by Admiral on
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This stinks!
Veolia is a large French multinational that is breaching international law by helping to build and operate a tramway linking illegal settlements in East Jerusalem with Israel. Not only do the settlements contravene article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention forbidding an occupier transferring its own civilians into the territory it occupies, but in most cases the establishment of the Israeli settlements involved war crimes too. The tramway tightens Israel’s hold on occupied East Jerusalem, ties the settlements more firmly into Israel and undermines chances of a just peace.Veolia also operates bus services for Israeli settlers, running them between the illegal settlements and Israel. The buses travel on settler roads, which have decimated Palestinian towns and villages by stealing their land for construction, and cut them off from each other. Through its subsidiary, TMM, Veolia also collects refuse from illegal settlements at the Tovlan landfill site in the occupied Jordan Valley.
There is a campaign against the use of Veolia by London boroughs: http://www.bigcampaign.org/veolia/
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As it now transpired many residents aren't happy with Veolia being the new contractor.
Now Veolia is one of the 3 bidders for £4.7 billions contracts with north London, which includes Haringey.
These 30 years contracts are with the North London Waste Authority (NLWA), which represents:
Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest.
We're a group trying to dissuade NLWA from selecting Veolia. Our main concern is Veolia's grave misconduct in its serving illegal Israeli settlements.
See more info about our campaign at:https://hackneypsc.wordpress.com/no-to-veolia-in-north-london/
If you’re also concerned, please join us.
Yael
07880 731 865
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As we are on the topic of refuse collection, can anyone tell me why they collect the rubbish in the middle of the morning rush hour blocking narrow roads and causing a lot more congestion and pollution as a result. In days gone by they would pick up rubbish at 6.30am when there was no traffic about, presumably it took them less time but I am guessing people complained about the noise at that time of the morning and they had to pay the refuse collectors more for unsociable hours! Any thoughts on this?
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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You could ask the Council directly.
● Niall Bolger Director of Urban Environment - niall.bolger@haringey.gov.uk
Alternatively, Nilgun Canver is "cabinet" councillor with the remit for the waste contract. nilgun.canver@haringey.gov.uk
And your three ward councillors are:
● Joanna Christophides ( joanna.christophides@haringey.gov.uk )
● Matt Cooke ( matt.cooke@haringey.gov.uk )
● Ali Demirci ( ali.demirci@haringey.gov.uk )
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Permalink Reply by Omotn on
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I have taken your advice and written to Bolger and Canver with some questions, and have copied in one of my ward councillors (sorry I'm an out of catchment contributor).
The full text can be seen here http://opinion8.ning.com/forum/topics/what-a-waste-potentially-very should you be interested.
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Thanks, Adrian. I read your letter with interest. The dealings of local councils should be as open and transparent as possible.
Can I suggest you post the reply on HoL so as many people as possible can read it.
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As at 20th Feb I have still not had a response so I have sent a further email:
http://opinion8.ning.com/forum/topics/what-a-waste-potentially-very...
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I have now received a reply to my enquiry. Every member of HoL can view it here http://opinion8.ning.com/xn/detail/6311863:Comment:1101?xg_source=a...
In the hope of further proliferating hyperlocal websites as per Hugh's comments, perhaps some members of HoL, especially those from N8, might also like to participate in the debate on OpinioN8
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I am of course not happy about the response I have received (I am both a grumpy old man and a retired project manager). I am also somewhat doubtful that Haringey's waste consultation gave them a mandate for introducing fortnightly waste collections for a carefully targeted subset of householders who will also have to accommodate another large wheely bin.
I have replied to Cllr Canver. My reply can be seen and commented upon here.
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Thanks for posting your email correspondence with Cllr Nilgun Canver. Though please forgive me if I don't add comments on your "grumpy" website. I rely on HoL to find out what's going on in Haringey - and the supplies of grumpiness here are already more than adequate.
By the way, the reason you couldn't access the documents listed by Nilgun is that whoever drafted the reply for her used the Council's intranet addresses. (I have the same problem, because I bought my own PC rather than use the slow and unreliable laptops which councillors were originally loaned.)
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Niall Bolger is now Sutton's new Chief Executive. His last achievement for Haringey was to hike up parking charges.
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