Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Garden waste collection
There is a weekly garden waste collection scheduled for Wednesdays for my address.
According to:
We will collect a maximum of five bags of garden waste with your weekly collection. Should you have any more please contact the Veolia Contact Centre.
2 weeks ago they have left one bag behind and again today they have one bag behind. Frankly I am tired of having to contact them /complain about not collecting - emails go to their customer service, I get a polite reply that they will come back to collect and then they do not.
There was 3 bags left out last night so well within the "limit" and again only 2 were collected and one left behind.
I moved in here late December and back garden was a jungle, I am slowly trying to clear it up but how can I ensure that garden waste is actually collected as per their website ie up to 5 bags?
Any ideas?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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I think you could make use of Haringey's complaints system - link below. And keep a log of everything that's happened. Best of luck
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/contact/council-feedback/complaints-abou...
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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on
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I'm guessing it's because your bag is "over-full". They also won't take bags with soil or turf in them. I would split the contents into 2 bags and see if that gets them collected.
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Permalink Reply by Alyson on
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Sorry to hear that, I have never put out more than 2 bags but no problems. Meanwhile, are you on good terms with any neighbours - we 'share' the rubbish when one of us has a big tidy-up!
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Permalink Reply by EMC2 on
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Better get busy as it looks like this service won't be provided (at least for free) for much longer.
From latest Budget proposal:
"Charging for Garden Waste: Stopping the current free weekly universal green waste collection service and
reverting to a weekly opt in charged green waste collection service. The charge would be set at £75 per annum."And the reason? "Green garden waste is household waste for which a charge can be made for the collection. The service will be paid for by those who opt in only rather than a contract cost which is funded universally by all residents."
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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It seems somewhat counter-intuitive against the broader national policy context that we will continue to be able to produce as much grey-bin household waste as we can fit in to our bins, This will go into landfill. At the same time we're now to be charged for waste which is harmless to the environment and from which a beneficial product can be made.
Hmm, is it me, or is there something wrong with this picture?
In explaining the change, the Council also say:
Nothing wrong with that logic, but I wonder if that's viable in the small city gardens most of us have. I won't be able to deal with all mine at source. So I guess my council tax just went up by £75. Guess they have to make up the funding gap somewhere - and as you'll see from the attached, ceasing free green waste collection is slated to be the biggest money-spinner of all the raft of waste changes.By charging for green waste......we will be encouraging residents to deal with their waste sustainably at source.
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Green waste and recycling is weekly. Grey-bin waste fortnightly. See the Collection Day Finder web page.
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That's pretty standard across the UK. In some places they're both fortnightly rather than recycling being weekly. The idea is that you don't put much in your grey bin (after recycling and food waste going in separate bins) so it doesn't get so full.
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Permalink Reply by tigha on
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I have to say I think it works very well for me. Fortnightly rubbish is fine, so long as everything is bagged up properly so it doesn't smell. I find I only have 1 Sainsbury's bag rubbish every week and that's mostly cat litter. Recycle everything, seems to all go. Garden waste all gets picked up fine , just make sure no soil, rubble etc, but I'm careful not to put too much and if more than 2-3bags I ask my neighbours to put it in the front. One of many reasons to make friends with your neighbours.
There are 3 changing tenants upstairs but I seem to keep them trained well enough, that we can keep to 1 black and 1 green bin. As I do not want my front littered with bins
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They are usually referring to soil...if you put plants with roots with soil on them they consider that "contamination". I'd just re-bag it so it looks different.
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Well we won't have garden waste collections for much longer so you should probably try and clear as much as you can until then. You'll have to put it in black bags and put it in with the normal rubbish after that.
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