Does Islington or Harringey Council collect your recycling when you leave it out on the pavement?
I left my recycling out in the see through recycling bags and Islington Council did not collect the recycling bags lots of times.The recycling bags were then left out on the street for a couple of weeks making the place look messy.I got fed up with this so now I don't recycle I just chuck my stuff in the bin like a couldn't care less chav pot mcdougal who is about as green as the Chinese government.
Is it true that the people who collect the see through recycling bags that you leave out on the pavements in the borough of Islington are just paid for say an 8 hour shift and can go home when they have finished so they rush as fast as possible so they can go home as quick as possible and if this means some people who leave out their recycling don't get it collected who cares they are getting paid.
Despite the fact that I left my recycling out the day before they are due to collect the recycling bags and I know that Islington Council regularly don't collect these recycling bags Islington Council continues to stuff throught the door loads of bumpf advertising how green they are, well they aren't green they are the opposite of green in my experience.
I'm not going to carrry very heavy sacks of bottles and the like down to the local recycling bin on the pavement that will do my back in.
Stroud Green Rd looks a mess regularly too they should clean more.
I'm not interested in any excuses from Islington council because I know how the system works which is you put all your stuff into the recyle bags leave it on the pavement at the right time and day then they don't bother to collect them and the sacks sit there on the pavement so litter louts drop their beer cans and burger boxes next to the recycling sacks which makes the street look even worse.
Islington Council needs to change its system of paying its people who collect the recycling sacks. Pay them bonuses on the basis of how many complaints they get so less genuine complaints more money for the workers.And dont let the recyclers go home before they done their shift so they are not incentivised to just rush as fast as possible and not collect the recycling.
If you complain they just might improve for a week or two then it goes back to not bothering to collect the sacks again no doubt
I'm not going to tell you where I live. Thanks to Islington council I now dont bother to recyce,yet I did recycling for years without complaint in another borough.
We will judge Islington Council by actions not words in their adverts
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One other issue is flytips: there are too many flytips in Islington and Haringey boroughs.Can't the council just employ a few more people to cycle around the boroughs to spot the flytips and arrange to get them cleaned up. The councils would only need to employ a couple of people on bicycles to just cycle around and jot down where the graffiti and flytips are to improve the boroughs alot I think.If they employed a few keen kids to cycle around the boroughs all day long and take a few photos on their mobile phone of dumped junk etc surely that would be a good use of council tax payers money.
I read about this on the other local community forum website called harringayonline.
There was a thread on harringayonline recently called "rubbish in your neighbours garden".
The thread refers to an article on guardian.co.uk called "eyesore rubbish vies for importance with BNP on local politicians agenda."
This article is about the approach that Barking and Dagenham council has taken to the problem of junk dumped in front gardens in their borough. Dagenham Council have a new project called "eyesore gardens". They put a notice through the front door of houses that have loads of tatty junk dumped in the front garden saying remove the junk or we will bill you for taking the junk.If the landlords don't remove the junk from the front garden within 28 days the council takes the junk and bills the landlord.
Does Haringey and Islington councils do this?
I know that when we leave our recycling sacks out, they get picked up - but I don't know whether they just get chucked in with the bin bags. As a rule I just take bits and bobs at a time down to the recycle bins outside Tesco, it's dead near and on my way to most places anyway.
Haringey seem quite good at actually sorting through bags on the spot to seperate paper/tin/glass/plastic etc when I walk past on Monday mornings.
We'll be getting some extra monitoring carried out along Stroud Road over the next few weeks to check for ourselves exactly what's going on. If there's a problem with the collections not being made, we'll deal with it. In the mean time, I'd urge any resident living in a flat above a shop along Stroud Green Road to carry on recycling. Clear bags of recycling can be put out on the pavement in the evening for collection that the same evening. The bags themselves can be collected from libraries and we also deliver them every four months or so.
We're actually one of the only Boroughs in London to provide a recycling service for flats above shops, but of course, we have to make sure the collections are reliable.
Any problems with collections, please report them to Contact Islington (020 7527 2000) or email contact@islington.gov.uk, and please do keep recycling!