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Tag Archives: #Binmageddon
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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Woodside councillors go missing from rubbish walkabout
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 #Binmageddon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Veolia, Woodside
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BINMAGEDDON!: Our street has been blighted by council
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 #Binmageddon, #CroydonBinChaos, Stuart Collins, Veolia
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BINMAGEDDON!: Let’s build a Christmas tree with old boxes
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
BINMAGEDDON!: One house, nine bins. Is this a record?
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
Posted in Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Veolia
Tagged #Binmageddon, #CroydonBinChaos, East Croydon, Veolia
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Public’s Town Hall questions on Binmageddon get censored
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 #Binmageddon, #CroydonBinChaos, Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman, Waddon, Westfield
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BINMAGEDDON!: Council acts quickly after Sawalha’s attack
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
BINMAGEDDON!: How our new collection has passed us 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
BINMAGEDDON!: It’s not costing £2.3m. It’s costing £2.3m
KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on the latest feeble effort by Croydon Council to try to justify its rubbish service and the impact of #CroydonBinChaos It’s official. The new bins being imposed on households across the borough, from Coulsdon … Continue reading
BINMAGEDDON!: How Veolia is transforming Croydon
Croydon Council says that 75 per cent of households in the borough are having their bin collection days changed, all as part of an effort to increase recycling rates and to make contractors Veolia’s work more efficient. Oh, and to … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged #Binmageddon, #CroydonBinChaos, Addiscombe West
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BINMAGEDDON!: Sloppy council dashes pensioner’s hopes
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on how the council has binned the hopes of a Park Hill OAP by first telling him they would remove his unwanted Veolia bins, only to contact him again less than 24 hours later to … Continue reading
BINMAGEDDON!: Council rolls back on costly bins roll-out
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on the latest twist in #CroydonBinChaos All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others Just as “Binmageddon” made it into the headlines of BBC London’s radio coverage this morning (including a … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Croydon Council, Environment, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Park Hill and Whitgift, Patricia Hay-Justice, Refuse collection, Sean Fitzsimons, Stuart Collins, Tom Lawrence, Veolia, Vidhi Mohan, Waste incinerator
Tagged #Binmageddon, #CroydonBinChaos, Addiscombe West, Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Park Hill, Sean Fitzsimons, Stuart Collins, Veolia, Vidhi Mohan
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