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Tag Archives: Veolia
Thank you! Readers pay Shirley women’s fine within hours
Inside Croydon readers come to the rescue of two young women hit with a harsh council fine – as Town Hall’s deputy leader claims he is powerless to intervene against decisions made by council officials and that he has lost … Continue reading
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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
Croydon is struggling to meet Mayor’s recycling targets
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 Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Croydon Council, Greenredeem, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, Veolia, Viridor
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BINMAGEDDON!: Veolia are ‘failing’ says ex-council leader
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
BINMAGEDDON!: Ex-deputy mayor’s Kafkaesque bin misery
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
BINMAGEDDON!: Sutton is worst borough for bin complaints
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
BINMAGEDDON!: The six-month saga to get one bin changed
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 Addiscombe, Addiscombe East, Croydon Council, Ken Towl, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Maddie Henson, Steve Iles, Stuart Collins, Veolia
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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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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!: Rubbish contractor considers more job cuts
If you thought that the refuse collection and street cleaning in Croydon couldn’t get any worse, WALTER CRONXITE has news for you Croydon’s rubbish contractor, Veolia, is considering cutting the number of staff it employs to carry out the domestic … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Business, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Kingston, Merton, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged #SuttonBinShame, Croydon Council, Kingston, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Merton, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Sutton, Veolia
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Labour official wants new scrutiny body to oversee incinerator
A leading official in Sutton Labour has called on his party colleagues in Croydon and Merton to establish urgently a scrutiny body to keep the South London Waste Partnership in check, in order to better monitor the emissions from the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charlie Mansell, Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, Merton, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Charlie Mansell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Stuart Collins, Tory, Veolia, Viridor
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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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BINMAGEDDON!: Veolia is sending recycling to incinerator
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, reports on some shocking revelations from Brighton which illustrate rubbish economics Veolia, the rubbish contractors for Croydon and three other boroughs in the South London Waste Partnership, have been instructing some of their staff to … Continue reading
BINMAGEDDON!: Rubbish piled high in our winter of discontent
If you thought that the images of over-flowing wheelie bins around the borough, after numerous missed collections by Croydon’s rubbish contractors, Veolia, were bad enough, this scene (above), at Forestdale should be very troubling indeed. The photograph was taken before … Continue reading
Posted in Fieldway, Fly tipping, Refuse collection, Simon Hall, Veolia
Tagged Croydon Council, Fieldway, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Simon Hall, Veolia
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BINMAGEDDON!: Veolia miss post-Christmas collections
Now the clean-up begins. Though with Veolia struggling to fulfil their commitments to collect refuse from residents across three south London boroughs, the post-Christmas clear out looks like taking much longer than usual.
Croydon’s roadside Christmas tree collections from Jan 14
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged Christmas trees, Croydon Council, Veolia
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BINMAGEDDON!: 1% missed collections thanks to Crap App
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports on how the council is using some dodgy stats to cover for its rubbish service The latest effort by Croydon to align itself with North Korea, where everything is perfect because the Great Leader … Continue reading
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
