Tag Archives: Veolia

OFFICIAL: Croydon is fourth worst in England for fly-tipping

Posted on June 3, 2019 by

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 →

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Croydon is struggling to meet Mayor’s recycling targets

Posted on March 19, 2019 by

Residents in Croydon, or Sutton and the other boroughs in the South London Waste Partnership who endure having Veolia as their councils’ rubbish contractor, might be forgiven for having allowed Global Recycling Day, which was yesterday, apparently, to have passed … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Merton, Outside Croydon, Refuse collection, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

BINMAGEDDON!: Veolia are ‘failing’ says ex-council leader

Posted on March 6, 2019 by

Veolia, Croydon’s rubbish contractors, are “a failing organisation” who cannot be taken seriously and “can’t even collect the bins in south London”. That’s according to a former deputy mayor of London and ex-leader of Croydon Council, Valerie Shawcross. Indeed, Shawcross … Continue reading →

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BINMAGEDDON!: Ex-deputy mayor’s Kafkaesque bin misery

Posted on February 20, 2019 by

Former Croydon Council leader Val Shawcross has called for Veolia to be sacked because of its rubbish service, as KEN LEE reports “What chance do ordinary residents have of getting the sort of service that they pay for if even … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Val Shawcross, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

BINMAGEDDON!: Sutton is worst borough for bin complaints

Posted on February 14, 2019 by

Our Sutton reporter BELLE MONT on how the council has confirmed our report about the ailing LibDem councillor, and how the council leader’s efforts to mislead over its rubbish service have been exposed Sutton’s Liberal Democrats have organised a council … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, London-wide issues, Refuse collection, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

BINMAGEDDON!: The six-month saga to get one bin changed

Posted on February 12, 2019 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: We appear to have a new version of the ‘how many people does it take to change a light-bulb’ gag here in Croydon… Only this one, inevitably, involves the bins. From the recent experience of KEN TOWL, pictured, … Continue reading →

Posted in Addiscombe East, Croydon Council, Environment, Ken Towl, Maddie Henson, Refuse collection, Steve Iles, Stuart Collins, Tom Lawrence, Veolia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Council dumps disastrous idVerde outsourced parks contract

Posted on February 7, 2019 by

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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment