Category Archives: Refuse collection

BINMAGEDDON!: 1% missed collections thanks to Crap App

Posted on November 23, 2018 by

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports on how the council is using some dodgy stats to cover for its rubbish service The latest effort by Croydon to align itself with North Korea, where everything is perfect because the Great Leader … Continue reading →

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BINMAGEDDON!: Our street has been blighted by council

Posted on November 19, 2018 by

KEN LEE on how some residents are responding to the imposition of wheelie bins they never wanted, and mostly never need More than three months after the council spent £2.3million to deliver new wheelie bins to 150,000 properties around the … Continue reading →

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BINMAGEDDON!: Let’s build a Christmas tree with old boxes

Posted on November 18, 2018 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Three months after the ‘changeover’ in rubbish contractor Veolia’s bin collection schedules, with new bins, smaller wheelies and recycling boxes which were supposed to be taken away, loyal reader KIRSTIE SMITH, right, has penned on open letter to … Continue reading →

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Dombey gets Sutton in the Eye over Incinerator Academy

Posted on October 31, 2018 by

Ruth Dombey’s relentless drive to have Sutton regarded as the rottenest borough in south London got another boost today, as her Liberal Democrat-run council got yet another dishonourable mention in Private Eye magazine. The scurrilous satirical fortnightly features on its … Continue reading →

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BINMAGEDDON!: One house, nine bins. Is this a record?

Posted on October 19, 2018 by

Someone needs to call in Ross and Norris McWhirter. Or Roy Castle. Or whoever it is that runs the Guinness Book of Records these days. Is this a record-breaker? This one house in East Croydon has NINE wheelie bins. Surely … Continue reading →

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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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