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I notice that all brown bins are still being emptied and am wondering why I have paid ?25!

I was queuing for ages in there recently so asked the man who was walking around asking what we wanted to do why only one till was open. He said they were short staffed as two members of staff hadn?t turned. He was the manager of another branch who had been drafted in ?to help.? I asked why he wasn?t doing something useful, like open the second till, but that, apparently, isn?t part of his job. He then welcomed a young man who had arrived from another branch and would open the second till. A good 5 minutes later I asked the manager again when the 2nd till would open and was told the young man was just about to do it. He was rather bemused when I pointed out the young man was helping someone at the machines! At this point a miracle occurred and a member of staff who always works there opened the second till! What a shambles.

James, it arrived on Friday although the big food caddie says food and garden waste on it!

Here hilly, your mum must have a caddie from new stock as mine says food and garden!

I finally got my small and large food caddies and, as someone has pointed out, the large food caddie states that it is for food AND garden waste! How does that make any sense?

James, I have my sticker but not my food caddies.

If only a tiny number of people have signed up to the scheme I fail to see how it will make any money at all!

Sally buying, I have emailed Richard Livingstone and look forward to getting my caddies delivered by a unicorn!

The catchment area appears to be huge!

I have put the sticker on my old large brown bins but have not got my big food caddie yet so am putting food waste in big brown bin for the moment.

You need to order a big food caddie. I still don?t have my sticker though.

KK you were supposed to put food waste into the brown bin but,under the new system, it will go in a caddie which you need to order if you don?t have one.

You don?t pay the ?25 if you use the brown bags as you now have to pay for them. As far as I understand, you then have to arrange for the brown bags to be collected the way bulky waste is collected but it is free. More lorries on the road emptying brown bins, food caddies and collecting brown bags sounds like the perfect way to reduce pollution!!!

As Penguin says, they are continuing to empty the brown bin including kitchen waste as we have been told to do until the caddies arrive. We should all get a partial refund if the system is being charged for but not implemented.

I have bought reusable bags for fruit, veg and things like bread rolls.

There is nothing mythical about the person killing cats and small mammals.

If I understand correctly the government wants to ban garden waste collection charges so why is Southwark spending loads on stickers and caddies ( which they don?t, in fact, have)? I have paid my ?25 but like everyone else I have no sticker or caddie!

The council is useless. They introduce new charges before putting the infrastructure into place. They want to charge for parking in the parks from the 1st April but, thank goodness, haven?t installed the required equipment. They get us to pay for garden waste collection but don?t have the bins or stickers we need. What a shambles!

Dougie22, that is great!

The Canada geese had 4 goslings but glad to hear that three of them are still there.

I went to Dulwich Park last Tuesday and there was no sign of paying machines..

They had 6 goslings last week. 😥