Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Get ready to RECYCLE!
Boring Talking to the Veolia crew last night about recycling in the borough (sorry outreach team I know I am excessively interested in waste disposal for someone who has never worked in the industry), it emerged that the new arrangements (weekly recycling and food waste; fortnightly landfill waste) will be coming to the Ladder in June. You will get a large recycling bin (a wheelie with a green lid) delivered and you should get a leaflet to explain what can go into it.
I fully support this move to get people recycling and hope that as a community we will get behind it and do our best to reduce and recycle.
However, I do anticipate teething problems. My personal gripe was that I don't want a recycling bin the size of a small family home in my front garden, so I have been assured that I can order a smaller bin, as I did with my standard bin. I also anticipated problems with overflowing bins at certain properties in my road when they didn't adapt to the fortnightly collections for landfill waste. I was told that those properties could be visited by outreach teams to help them get used to it, so long as they were told about it.
In the end, this has to work, there are no alternatives. We can't keep burying the problem and do need to change our ways. It is in all our interests to have a conversation with Veolia staff to get the problems sorted as soon as possible. I may be kidding myself but this doesn't have to be a process that is done to us but in collaboration with us. I hope Veolia and Haringey Council are ready to listen and work with us.
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Permalink Reply by cara howard on
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That's great news. Our recycling bin is always overflowing, so I think we'd need a big one.
That said, less packaging in the first place would help even more.
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Permalink Reply by Gill on
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This is interesting.
On a personal level I am worried about the message not getting through to the other occupants of my house.
The two other flats are used for short-term lets and the tenants are more often than not, not English speaking.
I have an idea........
Veolia design a poster re collection times, what goes in which bin and how to get bulk waste removed. This can then be in a visual style or in different languages or combine the two.
Then residents and landlords/management companies can print off the relevant template and display in an appropriate place in their flats.
Simple, yes?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Excellent idea. My Mum's recycling wheelie bin (she lives in Sunderland) has a sticker on top that has illustrations of what can be put in it.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Liz. I know what you mean about anotehr large bin in the front. I was thinking about your comments and what it would mean for me, but then I relaised we do recycle already in our house, lots. This morning we had four tubs overflowing with recylcing and several flat packed cardboard boxes too. I think, for many of us, the reality might be tidier gardens in some way...
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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No, I think that for many people the large bin will be useful. My point was that if you are given one of the v large bins and you aren't going to need it, you can have a smaller one. I swapped my standard wheelie for the dinky size a couple of years ago and will be doing the same for the recycling one. I'm kind of at the stage where I want to avoid all packaging if I can, which is a tall order in this country. I fill two boxes weekly and so a small wheelie should be enough for my family's needs.
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Sure. I wonder if we can do with a smaller 'normal' bin... Lets give it a few months and see.
Packaging is a nighmare though, Amazon is the worst, the amount of stuffing in a box, then the box itself. Blimey! Then you get to what you have bought, in its own packaging...
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Permalink Reply by 09mffin8ul89r on
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I'm please with this going ahead. When I moved to Harringay 2 years ago I was shocked by the landfill waste culture compared to when I lived in Worcestershire and Norfolk, and maybe like some have said in other posts it is to do with language and lack of understanding/education on how to manage our waste. I must also say it is down to training the shop workers to not throw carrier bags at their customers when they buy food. Iceland on Green Lanes are culprits of this and again was like going backwards when I first moved here as in Norwich it was all about long life bags or strong canvas bags, which you would take with you when shopping.
Little things like this will help the cause and maybe once the bin systems change in the summer people at large will as well, but thumbs up!
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