Tag Archives: #Binmageddon

Woodside councillors go missing from rubbish walkabout

Posted on January 31, 2019 by

Just two weeks after residents organised a walkabout in South Norwood and part of Woodside ward with some councillors and management from Croydon’s rubbish contractors, and the photograph (right) shows the state of one of those streets again yesterday. Residents … Continue reading →

Posted in Clive Fraser, Environment, Fly tipping, Hamida Ali, Jane Avis, Patsy Cummings, Paul Scott, Refuse collection, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Veolia, Woodside | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Addiscombe West, Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Veolia | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Croydon Council, Kirstie Smith, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , | 5 Comments

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 →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Bernadette Khan, Brick by Brick, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Housing, Jo Negrini, Joy Prince, London-wide issues, Niro Sirisena, Refuse collection, Robert Canning, Simon Brew, St Andrew's, Stuart Collins, Stuart King, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Veolia, Waddon, Wandle Park, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Kirstie Smith, Refuse collection, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , | 8 Comments