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Tag Archives: Veolia
Thanks for the bins and incinerator! ‘Ballistic’ Bolger is leaving
Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, on the shock – and a tad premature – announcement that the council chief exec has quit their job So long, and thanks for all the bins. And the Viridor incinerator, of course. Niall Bolger, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Outside Croydon, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Waste incinerator
Tagged #SuttonBinShame, Beddington Lane incinerator, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Veolia, Viridor
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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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BINMAGEDDON!: Smaller wheelie bins to cost Croydon £2.3m
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on how the council opted to pay extra for the new bins which are so unpopular with the borough’s residents Residents, thousands of whom are already angry at the invasion of their properties by unwanted … Continue reading
Binmageddon!: Veolia won’t empty the bins for three weeks
Our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE, reports on the latest contentious move by the council’s rubbish contractors The roll-out of new household refuse bins and a new cycle for emptying them, due to begin next month, will see the council’s … Continue reading
BINMAGEDDON!: More questions raised by rubbish roadshow
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Armed with his exemption letter from the council, telling him that his home was not suited to storing even one, never mind at least three, wheelie bins, IAN HUNTER set off to the public roadshows to hear what … Continue reading
BINMAGEDDON!: How I intend to refuse to take new wheelies
CROYDON COMMENTARY: As the council begins the ‘roll-out’ of its new wheelie bins, at least one resident, IAN HUNTER, thinks he has found a way to avoid being forced to triple the number of bins on the narrow pavement outside … Continue reading
BINMAGEDDON! Why can’t the council engage with residents?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: So just how might Croydon’s householders cope with the invasion of wheelie bins we have been told to expect over the coming weeks? KIRSTIE SMITH, right, has some suggestions Inside Croydon’s coverage of Binmageddon coincided with the day … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Kirstie Smith, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Kirstie Smith, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Veolia
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BINMAGEDDON! ‘Does anyone think this is a good idea?’
Inside Croydon readers have reacted strongly against the council’s and Veolia’s plans to impose at least two additional wheelie bins on every household, and to expect residents to return their soon-to-be redundant recycling boxes. Early results of an (unscientific) poll … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman, Veolia
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BINMAGEDDON! Residents outraged by council’s rubbish plan
Council to insist that households must take at least three wheelie bins Local authority knew of changes to system months before local elections Many residents threatening to refuse to accept extra wheelie bins Council accused of lying to residents over … Continue reading
Labour look to sack Veolia and build council homes in Sutton
Labour in Sutton tonight published its manifesto ahead of the local elections on May 3, including a promise to hold a public inquiry in what has become notorious as #SuttonBinShame, with the transfer of waste collection and street-cleaning services to … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Charlie Mansell, Emily Brothers, Environment, Paul Scully MP, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Bonnie Craven, Charlie Mansell, Emily Brothers, Labour, SLWP, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Veolia, Viridor
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Veolia are set to sweep away nearly 40 street-cleaning jobs
Croydon’s rubbish contractors, Veolia, want to axe almost half of the street cleaners it employs in the borough, according to a report from a Guildford-based newspaper. Nearly 40 jobs could go, if proposals included in a staff consultation discussed at … Continue reading
Council and Veolia fined £370,000 after crushing incident
Croydon Council has been fined £100,000, plus legal costs, and the borough’s rubbish contractors, Veolia penalised with a £250,000 fine, plus costs, after a worker was crushed by a reversing dust cart, suffering significant injuries. According to a report from … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Veolia
Tagged Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Veolia
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#SuttonBinShame: ‘We can’t do the job any more’ say staff
Our Sutton correspondent, BELLE MONT, reports on claims from Labour activists in St Helier that street-cleaning staff, transferred from the council to Veolia last year, are having their reports of fly-tipping ignored and refused permission to take holidays Labour activists … Continue reading
#SuttonBinShame: Dombey accused of gerrymandering Veolia
A leaked email obtained by this website seems to show that Liberal Democrats have been abusing council resources in an attempt to get themselves out of the hole they have created with their rubbish Veolia service. Our Sutton investigations editor, … Continue reading
Fieldway’s Hall launches attack on ‘unacceptable’ Veolia
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on the widening splits within the leadership of the Labour group on the council, with local elections less than four months away One of Croydon council leader Tony Newman’s most trusted lieutenants has this week … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Carole Bonner, Felicity Flynn, Fieldway, Fly tipping, Louisa Woodley, New Addington South, New Addington North, Oliver Lewis, Refuse collection, Simon Hall, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Tony Pearson, Veolia
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fieldway, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Simon Hall, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Veolia
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Collins backs free Christmas tree collection service for 2018
WALTER CRONXITE reports from the council chamber on the first giveaways of the 2018 election campaign Stuart Collins, the deputy leader of Croydon’s Labour-run council, put an early present under every household’s Christmas tree in the borough last night. Collins … Continue reading
Viridor getting twitchy as thousands sign twitchers’ petition
Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, on a multi-billion corporation which has started meddling in local politics, again Viridor, as they prime themselves to fire up next year their vast incinerator at Beddington Lane, appear to be getting more concerned over … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, London-wide issues, Merton, Outside Croydon, Peter Alfrey, Refuse collection, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington Farmlands, Beddington Lane incinerator, Peter Alfrey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Veolia, Viridor
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Veolia accused of ‘cheap PR stunt’ as their bins break the law
BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, on the latest bit of rubbish from the borough’s bin contractors Veolia, the bin contractors who helped to create #SuttonBinShame and chaos when they started working in Sutton earlier this year, have been accused of … Continue reading
Sutton pipes up with another £1m contract for binmen Veolia
BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, has been doing a bit of digging around a heating network’s pipes and uncovered millions of pounds of public cash Not for the first time, there’s a bit of a stink coming from Sutton’s civic … Continue reading
Our clueless councils are killing residents with toxic air
CROYDON COMMENTARY: After a week of shambles and chaos in neighbouring borough Sutton, with Carshalton Ponds being drained without any advance warning and with Veolia – who are familiar to Croydon residents after years of lacklustre service – missing bin … Continue reading
‘Anyone would think Croydon’s got money to burn’
Rows over Big Belly Bins in the Town Hall chamber will prove to be mild diversions when the public realises the massive profits likely to be made by waste and incinerator operators from their contracts with south London councils, as … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Environment, London-wide issues, Nick Mattey, Refuse collection, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Tory, Veolia, Viridor
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Veolia to answer residents’ questions at Waddon Forum
The Waddon Forum is a quarterly meeting organised by the ward’s councillors to allow residents to learn of news and developments in their community. The meetings take place from 5pm to 6.30pm at St George’s Church on Barrow Road on … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Joy Prince, Robert Canning, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Joy Prince, Robert Canning, Veolia, Waddon, Waddon Forum
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You’ve bin done: is council paying over the odds for solar bins?
It’s looking like Croydon’s Council Tax-payers are paying over the odds – again – for a set of rubbish bins, showing once more that the borough’s procurement practices don’t seem to work very well for the borough. Stuart Collins, the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Veolia
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Stuart Collins, Veolia
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Street cleaners Veolia rewarded with £38m eight-year contract
The South London Waste Partnership has saddled Council Tax-payers in Croydon, Sutton, Merton and Kingston with an eight-year contract with Veolia. Yes, that’s right: the same company which currently empties the bins and sweeps the roads in Croydon. The SLWP … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Veolia
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Stuart Collins, Veolia
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