Category Archives: Refuse collection

Public’s Town Hall questions on Binmageddon get censored

Posted on October 10, 2018 by

KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, sat through nearly four hours of Monday’s Town Hall meeting, so that you didn’t have to… A mere 90 days since the last full meeting of the council, and most of the borough’s councillors … Continue reading →

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BINMAGEDDON!: Merging of borough services causing chaos

Posted on October 4, 2018 by

Our Sutton correspondent, BELLE MONT, has obtained a confidential council document which confirms that much of the #CroydonBinChaos over the past two months was all done in an effort by Veolia to avoid a repeat of… #SuttonBinShame Inside Croydon has … Continue reading →

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BINMAGEDDON!: Council acts quickly after Sawalha’s attack

Posted on September 29, 2018 by

Getting your bins emptied in Croydon appears to depend on whether you have a TV star’s backing, rather than reliable organisation from the council’s contractors, reports KEN LEE. Or is it just coincidence that the council acted immediately after Veolia’s … Continue reading →

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BINMAGEDDON!: Celeb Sawalha tells council ‘Get it sorted!’

Posted on September 28, 2018 by

Croydon Council and their rubbish contractors at Veolia could be in deep poo now. Nadia Sawalha is on their case. The former EastEnders star posted an impassioned appeal to the council yesterday, claiming that she and her friends have been … Continue reading →

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BINMAGEDDON!: Croydon shows its commitment to recycling

Posted on September 28, 2018 by

PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: In the week when the council launched a Blue Planet-style video to get people to take greater care over how they dump plastic waste, in the Clocktower buildings next to the Town Hall, recycling boxes have been taped … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Veolia, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Councillors’ air pollution event fails to mention incinerator

Posted on September 17, 2018 by

Three Croydon councillors want to stage a talking shop about how to deal with air pollution – just days after the council-commissioned Beddington incinerator begins to pump out pollutants over south London. Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, reports In the … Continue reading →

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BINMAGEDDON!: How our new collection has passed us by

Posted on September 8, 2018 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The first week of Veolia’s new bin collection schedule has been and gone, with varying reports of successful, and less successful, experiences, of still-missing new wheelies, and wheelie bins that have come, and then gone again. Here, South … Continue reading →

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