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Category Archives: Veolia
Ticking boxes – how our council lets down staff and public
CROYDON COMMENTARY: A former council insider responds to our report about the borough’s vanishing street bins with their insight into the authority’s procurement process – which they find to be disorganised and open to potential corruption There is a big … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged Capgemini, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, Veolia
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#Binmageddon: 1,000 street bins have vanished from borough
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Council agreed to pay its rubbish contractor an extra £20.7m while it reduced the services they are expected to deliver, leaving the borough’s streets ever dirtier. EXCLUSIVE by SANJANA IDNANI Around 1,000 bins have been vanished from … Continue reading
Four London boroughs have no plans for waste reduction
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The boroughs of Croydon, Sutton, Merton and Kingston have a new draft South London Waste Plan and, according to PETER UNDERWOOD (right), it’s a load of rubbish One of the most common issues people raise with me is … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Environment, Fly tipping, Kingston, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Merton, Peter Underwood, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon Greens, Kingston Council, Merton Council, Peter Underwood, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, South London Waste Plan, Sutton Council, Veolia, Viridor
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Questions raised over new £21m rubbish deal with Veolia
The council budget, which is set to be approved at a virtual meeting tonight, offers “the worst of both worlds” as far as the borough’s recycling centres are concerned, according to a Tory councillor. In the middle of the council’s … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Helen Redfern, Property, Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Factory Lane recycling centre, Helen Redfern, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown, S114, Section 114, Tory, Veolia
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Report: Incinerator is ‘as polluting as coal-fired power stations’
An investigation published by the Daily Telegraph reports that hundreds of millions of pounds of public money has been handed over to the incinerator industry based on false claims that burning waste generates cheap, green energy. The Telegraph investigation, published … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon Council, Environment, Planning, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, John Drage, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Sutton Council, Tory, Veolia, Viridor
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‘Joseph Heller could use Croydon as a sequel to Catch 22’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The row between the Labour council and Tory government over the possible costs of staging a mayoral referendum has got loyal reader IAN KIERANS crunching some numbers Is it really £1million additional costs to stage a referendum over … Continue reading
Everything in the garden waste is rosy, as service resumes
Well, that bit of the coronavirus emergency, with staff off sick or isolating, didn’t last long. Just a week after suspending the rubbish contractor Veolia’s garden waste collection service, Croydon Council yesterday announced that the service is to resume. The … Continue reading
Binmageddon!: Council blunders again over garden waste
The serial incompetence of the propaganda department at Labour-run Croydon Council has managed to hand another (albeit minor) political victory to the Tory opposition, this time over the suspension of the borough’s garden waste service. As Inside Croydon was first … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Sean Fitzsimons, Steve Iles, Veolia
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Green Garden Waste collections, Labour, Steve Iles, Tory, Veolia
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Binmageddon!: Veolia provides consistently rubbish service
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Purley resident PENNY SCOTT says that she has not had her household refuse collected on schedule since 2018 We did receive the council’s leaflet detailing the changes to our household refuse collections over Christmas. But my general waste … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Purley, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged #Binmageddon, Croydon Council, Purley, Veolia
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Council bins garden waste collections – but offers no refunds
Croydon Council has abruptly suspended all green garden waste collections, despite having received payment in advance of more than £1million for the service from thousands of residents. Some householders, who have paid the £65 annual fee, have contacted Inside Croydon … Continue reading
Binmageddon!: Veolia to take until February for ‘tree-cycling’
The annual Croydon festival of Stick Your Old Christmas Tree On The Pavement is all set to begin next week, with the prospect of it lasting for longer than in previous years. Epiphany – the day to mark when the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged #Binmageddon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Steve Iles
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Binmageddon!: Veolia admits to botched leaflets delivery
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. But on Christmas Eve in Croydon, in the middle of a Tier 4 coronavirus lockdown, functionaries from Veolia, the council’s rubbish … Continue reading
Binmageddon! Thousands miss out on council rubbish leaflet
The council has managed to miss out thousands of Croydon residents, in areas as far apart as Upper Norwood, Shirley and Coulsdon, from deliveries of a leaflet with important information about changes to collection days for their domestic refuse and … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, South Norwood, Upper Norwood, Veolia
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Binmageddon! Confusion and delay on Christmas collections
Some households in the borough face a gap of at least 11 days for their domestic refuse collections over the Christmas period – having been given no notice of the rearranged schedule. And it will take rubbish contractors Veolia until … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged #Binmageddon, Refuse collections, Veolia
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Binmageddon!: Oval Road residents despair at rubbish service
Demoralised residents in Addiscombe have appealed to the council to sort out the mess that they have created on Oval Road, where rubbish bags are left festering for days, even weeks on end, often with their contents spewing out across … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Sarah Jones MP, Sean Fitzsimons, Veolia
Tagged Addiscombe, Addiscombe West, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, London Borough of Croydon, Oval Road, Sarah Jones MP, Sean Fitzsimons, Veolia
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Shrublands women crowdfund to pay council’s harsh fine
Two young women from the Shrublands Estate in Shirley are appealing for help in paying council fines of up to £300 after they were both served with fixed notice penalties for… putting their recycling out for collection. Farhana Shefa and … Continue reading
Town Hall protest as XR demand answers over incinerator
Extinction Rebellion will be staging a protest on the Town Hall steps tonight, ahead of the latest meeting of the South London Waste Partnership. The branches of Croydon and Sutton XR will want Stuart Collins, the deputy leader of Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Friends of the Earth, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon Council, Extinction Rebellion, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Viridor, XR Croydon, XR Sutton
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Council ‘improves’ its recycling rates by burning more rubbish
It was trebles all-round at Croydon Town Hall last night, as councillors slapped themselves on the back for significantly improved recycling rates, after they imposed Binmageddon on residents across the borough last year. But an unintended slip by a council … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Jenny Jones, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jenny Jones, Labour, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Tony Newman, Veolia, Viridor
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Residents feeling drained as roads blocked again by flooding
This, left, was the scene on Kenley Lane last night. For residents in that part of the borough, it is an all too familiar a scene whenever there is a heavier-than-usual rainfall. It is not as if Croydon Council and … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Clark, Croydon Council, Environment, Kenley, Purley, TfL, Veolia
Tagged Chris Clark, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Kenley, Kenley Lane, London Borough of Croydon, Purley, STUART KING, TfL, Transport for London, Veolia
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Councillors ‘gagged’ from questioning incinerator operators
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, on how what is supposed to be a public meeting at Croydon Town Hall tonight has banned questions about the fire at the Beddington Lane incinerator Councillors elected to represent people living across four boroughs … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, Merton, Nick Mattey, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane, Beddington Lane incinerator, Beddington North, Broad Green, Kingston, Merton, Nick Mattey, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Viridor, Waddon
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Mystery deepens over death of worker on Veolia bin collection
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
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Veolia
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath, Veolia
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Veolia worker dies in the heat during Thornton Heath bin round
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
Posted in Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Refuse collection, Tony Newman, Veolia
Tagged Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Veolia
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Croydon BID pays for extra cleaning in ‘neglected’ town centre
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
Posted in Business, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Veolia
Tagged Croydon BID, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Veolia
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OFFICIAL: Croydon is fourth worst in England for fly-tipping
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
Viridor apologist Brunt’s blunt treatment from Merton Council
Our Merton correspondent, NORMAN COLLIER-WOOD, reports on how the toxic fall-out from rubbish contractor Veolia’s shortcomings has claimed its first council victim Merton’s rubbish councillor, Mike Brunt, has been sacked from his council cabinet post. Labour councillor Brunt had been … Continue reading
