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Fortnightly bin collections on the agenda
11 Feb 2019 22:21
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At its meeting on 13th February Enfield's Cabinet will be discussing proposed changes to waste collection services for households with "wheelie bins". If the Cabinet approves the recommended option, Enfield will join the growing list of UK local authorities (82 per cent of all LAs) that no longer collect refuse every week.
Fortnightly bin collections on the agenda
13 Feb 2019 17:10
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Darren Edgar  |
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So basically they consulted and then just went with the option that saved the most money - No.7. As much as I bought into this more than many, that's pretty pathetic, and synonymous with local government bureaucracy.
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Fortnightly bin collections on the agenda
14 Feb 2019 07:39
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Neil Littman |
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As undemocratic a decision as ever. Even with two council tax rises in the past three years they cannot afford to collect our rubbish. Also no mention in the consultation of the several hundred households in the borough that have dispensation (that is the word they use) to leave out rubbish in grey and blue bags due to lack of room for wheelie bins. My home opens directly onto the street as do many others nearby. There is nowhere to store the food waste etc. I don't mind keeping the recycling for another week but the food waste in the grey bags needs to be collected. Also nothing said about the capacity of the bin lorries. The same amount of rubbish but only half the number of collections. What if they cannot take it all at once? Do the bin men lose half their wages or do they cut the work force. We have heard nothing about this.
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Fortnightly bin collections on the agenda
14 Feb 2019 11:13
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Neil Littman |
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Also to add one further comment, it was reported in the news yesterday that all councils are raising council tax by the maximum of 2.5% to presumably even this is not enough to cover the existing cost of bin collections? This means Enfield Council will have put council tax up by nearly 7% in the past three years.
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Fortnightly bin collections on the agenda
15 Feb 2019 17:46
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Roger Blows |
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No one would compare the rubbish bin consultation with the EU referendum - well, maybe that would be too tempting - but it is funny, is it not, that having found out that 66% of those responding prefer current arrangements, the LBE Cabinet opts for Option 7 which attracted 8.5%, the least popular of the choices presented. No cry here of “we must deliver the people’s choice!” Of course, the Administration can justifiably point to the tiny proportion of Council Tax payers who took part in the consultation, in stark contrast to the numbers who cast a vote in the referendum. But it’s interesting to reflect on the Council’s obvious failure to persuade the public of the merits of Option 7, even though it allegedly offers the most revenue savings further down the track and supposedly prompts a higher level of recycling. Let’s hope there will be some serious thinking in the Civic Centre about how to handle consultations. Let’s also hope that before too long there will be a return to decent levels of central funding for local authorities and their services.
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Fortnightly bin collections on the agenda
16 Feb 2019 09:52
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Neil Littman |
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Found out since then that 2,500 households in the borough, like mine, that have bag collections once a week will continue to do so while the rest have a collection every two weeks. I think this is very divisive whichever way you look at it. The council have yet to announce how they will manage this.
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Fortnightly bin collections on the agenda
16 Feb 2019 10:31
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Karl Brown |
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A reading of key waste reports, either at London or North London levels, will highlight that in waste collection all things are actually not equal, and sensibly so: flats in particular pose recycling and collection issues fundamentally different to suburban streets full of houses, and that’s irrespective of garden waste. Different collection regimes are needed but no one is realistically seeing them as being divisive as is suggested in the recent PGC posting.
Going deeper in to the Mayors (statutorily required) Municipal Waste Strategy, published last year after consultation, probably lie many of the clues to LBE’s current plans, eg: "Boroughs are encouraged to consider a range of measures to restrict residual waste, for example through smaller bin containers or changes to collection frequency". (Families of five or more can apply to LBE have one of the larger bins.); and, "to help them achieve the recycling targets, waste authorities (which includes LBE as a Waste Collection Authority) should deliver the following minimum level of service for household recycling: • all properties with kerbside recycling collections to receive a separate weekly food waste collection" Why these are being suggested make sense once you’ve read the material – basically waste costs an awful lot to dispose of under relatively recent tax changes , often is not all that environmentally favourable, is often a valuable resource and we need to do better with it than simply sticking it in the ground or burning it. I didn’t reply to the consultation on the basis I had an inkling but i'm100% with Roger on the need to better handle consultations. |
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Fortnightly bin collections on the agenda
22 Feb 2019 11:17
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Colin Younger |
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A note on "Other Consutations" in the weekly news letter referes to a DEFRA consultation on resource and and waste which closes on 13 May. This is an interesting analysis of the problem at national level, seeking to set out a coherent national strategy. If adopted it seems to me that it will have many benefits, not least that the avoids the current situation where every local authority has its own rules and procedures. It proposes central government funding to cover the net costs of changes and additional running costs. One feature is that it anaylsis the issues of garden waste collection, and suggests that free collection should be the standard, and explains why.
The consultation is at consult.defra.gov.uk/environmental-quality/resource-and-waste-and-plastic-packaging-tax-consu-1/ |
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