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Category Archives: idVerde
Mayor will have little say over borough’s rubbish contractors
CROYDON COMMENTARY: It is one of the biggest and most important services provided by any local council. But the manner in which the borough has outsourced the management of bin collections, street cleaning and waste disposal and recycling has become … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Business, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, idVerde, Kingston, London-wide issues, Merton, Peter Underwood, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Val Shawcross, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged #Binmageddon, #MuckyMerton, #SuttonBinShame, 'Royal' Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Merton Council, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Viridor
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Council dumps disastrous idVerde outsourced parks contract
This was not what was meant when ‘taking back control’ was coined as a slogan, but this week in Croydon, our council has moved in to relieve a French firm of its responsibilities in our parks, as KEN LEE reports … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Carillion, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Duppas Hill Park, Environment, idVerde, Kingston, Libraries, Lloyd Park, Merton, Stuart Collins, Veolia, Wandle Park
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, idVerde, Kingston, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Merton, Phil Thomas, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Timothy Godfrey, Tory, Veolia
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TUC calls for ‘Domesday Book’ to register outsourced deals
One year on from the collapse of outsourcing giant Carillion, and the TUC is calling for greater transparency in the way private firms are able to profit from and operate public services. The Carillion collapse had some knock-on effects in … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Carillion, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, GLL - Better, idVerde, Libraries, Refuse collection, Skanska, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged Capita, Greenwich Leisure, idVerde, TUC, Veolia, Viridor
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Calls for council to halt use of weedkiller linked to cancer
Weedkillers including glyphosate, which has been linked to causing cancer in humans, continue to be used by Croydon Council, whose contractors even spray the substance around public parks and children’s playgrounds. Now Friends of the Earth is calling on the … Continue reading
A six-point plan to enhance our precious, under-threat parks
Conservationist PETER UNDERWOOD says that we need to support a Parks Charter to help guarantee the future of local open spaces I love spending time in nature, and we are blessed with a large number and variety of parks and … Continue reading
