Unlablled Brown Bins removal.

[DulwichFox]

This is just the start..

I would not be surprised if Blue and Green bins were next.

Charged by weight.

[Siduhe]

Thirty five pounds is a lot of money to some people.

Absolutely agree, and don't pay for the service by all means. But then don't use your neighbour's bin who has paid without asking or offering a contribution! Most people have kept their bins and subscribed where we are, but I know of a couple who are sharing by agreement. If someone was in difficulties, I'm sure the OP would be happy to come to an arrangement if asked. People just need to show a bit of basic manners.

I would not be surprised if Blue and Green bins were next.

Charged by weight

I think you're safe there, unless they change the law. Councils have a statutory duty and legal obligation to remove residential waste including recycling without separate charge (i.e. within council tax). It's only because garden waste is specifically listed as an additional service in the relevant regs that the Council is able to charge for this.

[Froglander]

It used to be that hedge and grass clippings were dumped in the green bins before the advent of the brown bins. They were collected.

[snoopy17]

Everyone in my street put all their rubbish in the giant bins from the flats across the road from me. Its like they are terrified to let the binman see whet they are throwing out. It is so weird.

[snoopy17]

Whats the point in putting your food rubbish in the small brown bin. The binmen are walking past them and not emptying them.they are too lazy to pick it up.

[DulwichFox]

Veola just delivered a Big Brown bin AND a pile of garden waste bags. to a house

a few doors up from me. They took the Brown bin away a few weeks ago.

[EDG]

Bin was taken even though subscription was paid. Has anyone else in that situation managed to get a new bin?

[gumshoe]

EDG Wrote:

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> Bin was taken even though subscription was paid.

> Has anyone else in that situation managed to get a

> new bin?

Not exactly the same scenario but our brown bin was swiped by a neighbour just before the new scheme began - I emailed Southwark?s environmental team ([email protected]) and they sorted the delivery of a new one.

[herne hilly]

SE24 bins removed today - my green waste was collected on friday and I had filled it and was outside when the guy came past. He told me he was collecting all the bins who hadn't paid for the subscription, (i've not paid for subscription),i said thats fine but I had already filled it, he said no problem, he is going to dump it in one of the bins with a label. so this could be the reason why people are finding random green waste in their bins.

[M.J.P.]

I have had my big brown bin taken but I paid for a sticker. Does anyone know who to call to get it back? Have emailed council and been passed round various departments when I call up.

Is it gone forever?!

have looked around and asked neighbours but bin still hasn't returned.

[peckman]

Same here ... no one seems to know at the council

[Froglander]

Same here. Some people on my road have stickered bins, but most have been removed. But is a shambles.

[edcam]

To add to our story, I caught a woman using our brown bin (an enormous black bin bag of apples). Despite telling her it wasn't a public bin and that you can't put black plastic bags in them anyway, she just shrugged her shoulders and walked off. Later I saw her drag someone else's brown bin all the way from the other end of the road and put it outside her house.

People just don't give a s**t. We're getting a hotbin.

[singalto]

Ed am, now that you know where she lives, you can return her apples to her!

[Froglander]

edcam Wrote:

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> To add to our story, I caught a woman using our

> brown bin (an enormous black bin bag of apples).

> Despite telling her it wasn't a public bin and

> that you can't put black plastic bags in them

> anyway, she just shrugged her shoulders and walked

> off. Later I saw her drag someone else's brown

> bin all the way from the other end of the road and

> put it outside her house.

>

> People just don't give a s**t. We're getting a

> hotbin.

What is a hotbin?

[Sue]

Froglander Wrote:

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> edcam Wrote:

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> -----

> > To add to our story, I caught a woman using our

> > brown bin (an enormous black bin bag of apples).

>

> > Despite telling her it wasn't a public bin and

> > that you can't put black plastic bags in them

> > anyway, she just shrugged her shoulders and

> walked

> > off. Later I saw her drag someone else's brown

> > bin all the way from the other end of the road

> and

> > put it outside her house.

> >

> > People just don't give a s**t. We're getting a

> > hotbin.

>

>

> What is a hotbin?

A very expensive type of compost bin that heats to a high temperature and therefore you can compost things youy wouldn't be able to in the usual kind.

[edcam]

Which would really help in the neighbourly groove

singalto Wrote:

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> Ed am, now that you know where she lives, you can

> return her apples to her!

[edcam]

What Sue said. They're expensive and high maintenance. But the alternative is to chuck everything into landfill. The lack of interest in the environment in one of the biggest boroughs in London is deeply depressing. Plus all the old brown bin stuff fed our parks and green spaces. That's gone now. I suppose, like my charming neighbour, the chucking of the wrong stuff in the wrong bin has become the norm. The environment is a middle class issue. Thats where we are.

Sue Wrote:

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> Froglander Wrote:

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> -----

> > edcam Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> > -----

> > > To add to our story, I caught a woman using

> our

> > > brown bin (an enormous black bin bag of

> apples).

> >

> > > Despite telling her it wasn't a public bin

> and

> > > that you can't put black plastic bags in them

> > > anyway, she just shrugged her shoulders and

> > walked

> > > off. Later I saw her drag someone else's

> brown

> > > bin all the way from the other end of the

> road

> > and

> > > put it outside her house.

> > >

> > > People just don't give a s**t. We're getting

> a

> > > hotbin.

> >

> >

> > What is a hotbin?

>

>

> A very expensive type of compost bin that heats to

> a high temperature and therefore you can compost

> things youy wouldn't be able to in the usual kind.

[snoopy17]

Why are the binmen not emptying the small brown bin. Too lazy to pick it up?

[Lebanums]

Don't we already pay for brown bins in our council tax? Aren't we supposed to be encouraged to grow gardens to help the environment and a dying number of bees & other insects?

On another note what happens when the leaves fall from the trees into our gardens, do we brush these back out onto the streets & clog up the drains because this is council responsibility?

[Penguin68]

Don't we already pay for brown bins in our council tax?

You pay for the collection of kitchen waste in your council tax (that's a statutory obligation) - for which the council now provides a mid-size brown bin (kerb-side caddy). Up till June 2019 you were also paying for the collection of garden waste as part of general council tax, but that's not s statutory obligation and that inclusive service was then withdrawn by the council and replaced by a separate charge for garden waste collection - for which the large brown bins (mainly) already provided were earmarked.

do we brush these back out onto the streets & clog up the drains because this is council responsibility?

Yes - that's going to be one of the (I'm sure) unintended consequences of this change in council policy.

[Ivvan]

Does anyone know how I get a new brown bin as mine is broken. Thanks.

[ed_pete]

Heard of Google ? Try using the words "southwark council replacement bin" and see what happens.

[Sue]

ed_pete Wrote:

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> Heard of Google ? Try using the words "southwark

> council replacement bin" and see what happens.

What a friendly response.

[fishbiscuits]

gumshoe Wrote:

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> fishbiscuits Wrote:

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> > I paid. Not received a label yet. This morning

> > they took my bin away! No contact details on

> > southwark website. WTF am I supposed to do

> now!!

>

> You may also want to email

> [email protected] - they sorted my

> issue out pretty promptly.

Quick update - I emailed this address as gummy suggested, and they replied within about a week, and a replacement brown bin arrived around 1 week after that.