Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Stinking rubbish in front gardens in summer
This (slightly edited) conversation appeared on another thread about growing in front gardens.
I guess the questions are do you share FPR's problem and what can be done about it?
Finsbury Park Ranger: I've got stinking rubbish and quite a lot of flies. Happy to share.
Liz: Have you rung Veolia FPR? I'm sure they will deal with that for you.
Finsbury Park Ranger: They do deal with it every two weeks. Unfortunately in the summer, with a liking for the occasional fresh crab, this just isn't enough.
I'll give them a ring.
Edit: Just rang them, they said general waste can only be picked up every two weeks so just have to wait until the next normal pick up.
I'll have to triple bag the rubbish future I guess.
Alan Stanton: ... your point about hot weather bin collections is apt. The BBC reported that 1 July was the hottest July day ever recorded in England. And there were heatwave alerts.
So it seems sensible if there could be some provision in the waste contract to add a few extra collections when temperatures soar.
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Permalink Reply by katia on
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Food waste bins are collected weekly (or should be and are collected next day if missed). That might help - assuming it is food waste that is causing the flies?
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Permalink Reply by Jasonserpent on
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I thing the majority of Bruce Grove has missed the point.
Having only lived here just over a year I have never experienced so many flies during the 2 summers.
My previous area, Hackney, never had these problems.
Would think that there are multiple sources to the problem.
Fortnightly collection of General rubbish
People's attitude to rubish and wast where old cans and things are just thrown on the streets - should street cleaning be increased?
Broken bins, some of people's bins on our street are missing lids, etc.
Maybe the diets are different in the area where a lot of meat/fish Is left in the bins.
Don't get me wrong I like the area but could really do without the flies.
/j
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Oh, that's irritating! All the information is here. Hopefully you are in an area covered by the service.
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/environment-and-transport/refuse-and-rec...
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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We're lucky and have a back garden. Which isn't completely paved over, or filled by a garage, or sheds with beds. So we can compost a lot of our vegetable food waste and use the rich crumbly stuff which comes from the little door at the bottom. The bin seems like reverse magic - always half empty as waste rots down.
However food waste - even in Haringey's free containers - can attract and breed flies.
It's worth remembering that last summer, uncollected food waste in her street led to the original flimsy pretext for the suspension of Julie Davies, Haringey NUT branch secretary. Julie - as a resident - sent an exasperated email to her ward councillor Barbara Blake about flies crawling all over her windowpanes one baking hot Sunday morning. A Veolia truck had broken down and stinking food waste in several streets went uncollected.
If your waste bin is not collected for some reason, or if Veolia don't reseal it properly you might come home to find it coated with a heaving layer of maggots.
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Permalink Reply by Junior Bennett on
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Lol - WTF?
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Permalink Reply by Betty Careless on
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slow worm - they love compost heaps
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Ok Cheers - I was thinking something bigger. Do they help or harm the environment? Reckon they would they come into your house?
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If it is a slow worm try this page.
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Ummmm.....Nope - seen enough. Many thanks
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No, really. Go on, have a read. If you're cautious about Wikipedia try this website instead .
As an ignoramus about slow worms and lots more "mini-beasts", I was fascinated to learn - better late than never - that these are neither worms nor snakes but small lizards. As for whether they "harm the environment" - they are part of our longstanding environment. If under threat by development. (And cats.)
Seems they live a long time (cats and developers permitting) and do lots of basking in the sunshine, lurking under logs and hunting around the compost.
"Oh, here we go slithering, here we go
Slithering and squelching on." -
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Whatever people say a two week collection for food and other waste is backward, retrograde and has unintended costs. It is in place only as a cost cutting mechanism and is NOT about being more environmentally friendly. It isn't efficient anyway becasue people who don't recycle mix their rubbish into both bins which are often seen to be overflowing with all the packaging that comes with anything you buy these days.
These ugly bins have invaded our front gardens and are an eyesore degrading already disheveled neighbourhood streets.
I do not want 3 bins in my very narrow front 'GARDEN'. It can hardly even take the one smaller bin. Did the Council propose an alternative? NO! I had to ask and INSIST on getting bags for my recycling collections and on having only 1 bin.
If I need to dispose of food waste that I do not want to have for 2 weeks in front of my house, I small-bag it and put it IN (not next to) a road side bin and it will get collected in a day. I am very conscoius that it causes extra strain on street bin collection and has a cost, but so be it. It seems we have to be more 'self help' and that is my solution to forcing provision for which I pay. Since the Council's very crude one size fits all solutions are unsuited to my needs but also to that of all the people living on streets where they have no or sloped front gardens and both bins for each home end up cluttering the pavement making it difficult for pedestrians.
I think quite a few people have realised that an 'efficient' way to get the council's providers to collect their waste and just dump it next to street bins because that does get it collected almost immediately. So the council's cost savings actually cause quite a bit of fly tipping next to street side bins.
The new collection scheme has been in place for several years and NOTHING has been done to addrress the problems associated with it! Minor efforts have been taken on the High Rd in Tottenham but that too has resulted in the Council placing more collection bins on the already ugly and cluttered pavements. So a council scheme has resulted in 'degeneration'. Meanwhile teh council is spendingmillions to subsidize developers coming into Tottenham and calling THAT regeneration. They - the Council - are part of the overall problem!
End of rant.
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"Meanwhile teh council is spendingmillions to subsidize developers coming into Tottenham and calling THAT regeneration. "
This - absolutely disgusts me. But what can we really do about it?
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