Category Archives: Refuse collection

Mystery deepens over death of worker on Veolia bin collection

Posted on August 13, 2019 by

Veolia has changed its public stance over the death of a worker on a bin collection round last month. Inside Croydon was first to report the fatality, which happened in Thornton Heath on July 25, one of the hottest days … Continue reading →

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Veolia worker dies in the heat during Thornton Heath bin round

Posted on August 6, 2019 by

Veolia and Croydon Council have tried to suppress information being reported about the death of one of the contractors’ workers at the end of July when, while on a bin round in Thornton Heath in some of the hottest temperatures … Continue reading →

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Beddington is just one of 14 fires at Viridor plants since 2015

Posted on July 25, 2019 by

Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, on a worrying sequence of fires at sites run by one of the country’s biggest incinerator operators which has prompted a call for an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive The fire next to … Continue reading →

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Croydon councillor leads call for incinerator fire investigation

Posted on July 12, 2019 by

BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK reports on the fall-out from yesterday’s fire at the site of the Viridor incinerator on Beddington Lane Stuart Collins, Croydon Council’s deputy leader, has called for an urgent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the fire at the Beddington … Continue reading →

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Croydon BID pays for extra cleaning in ‘neglected’ town centre

Posted on July 8, 2019 by

Some parts of Croydon are being given a deep-clean – at least, those parts of the borough where traders pay extra for special treatment, as an influential business group has described parts of the town centre as having been “seriously … Continue reading →

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Newman discovers climate emergency but offers little to fix it

Posted on June 28, 2019 by

Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, was at the council’s ‘sustainability summit’ – staged in an unsustainable venue where guests were drinking from single-use cardboard cups – and found it to be full of contradictions Tony Newman, the Labour leader of … Continue reading →

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OFFICIAL: Croydon is fourth worst in England for fly-tipping

Posted on June 3, 2019 by

News of another Croydon success which council leader Tony Newman will doubtless never mention and which will never appear amid the council’s propaganda and falsehoods on their website has dropped into the in-box at Inside Croydon Towers this morning. Croydon … Continue reading →

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