Our last print edition saw two employees to raise serious concerns about illegal dumping. Stuart Collins Council shall
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Editor's Note: See pages 6 and 7 May 2017 Croydon citizens Liz Sheppard-Jones and Stuart Millson wrote about the subject in Croydon uncontrolled dumping. Collins provided to the consultants of this article in the response.
It is important that citizens publications as evidenced by the problems that have a major impact on the daily lives of people. As Cabinet Member Croydon clean and green, I care deeply for Waste, recycling and illegal dumping. As a tip, we promised to cleaner streets and a priority in 2014, we have our Do not Mess With Croydon (DMWC) Take pride campaign - through fantastic response from the community - was a great success.
The Community response by recruiting 329 Master Council of the street is occupied, in collaboration with the board 147 cleanings directly in our district, for example. Residents tell us regularly that these are the cleanliness of the public spaces are more orderly and convey a sense of community pride.
With DMWC you crack us on fly-tippers and litter, dump waste illegally in our streets and public places. Any person or company who committed the crime, or a waste disposal use unlicensed faces fines and a possible court conviction. To date, we have sought a total of 150 overflights and litterers rockers and seized 23 vehicles, 17 involved in an accident landfill.
This is not a problem, Croydon - will cost the UK around £ 821m per year
This spring, only 14 magistrates ordered offenders to pay more than £ 5,000 conducted in fines, court costs and fees for environmental crimes in our city. That comes to a case that we have successfully done in January against flying landfill George Smith, who was imprisoned by the use of a truck to dump several tons of trash on our streets.
We have made tremendous progress and the campaign to go on from strength to strength. However, there is still much to do and wanted to answer some readers' questions and inform you about current initiatives and measures already planned for the future.
Let me first the problem of illegal dumping and litter. This is not a problem, Croydon - will cost the UK around £ 821m a year. We have written to the government to give them advice on pushing executive powers, consider the impact of austerity policies and especially a campaign in traditional media such as the campaign against drinking and driving matamoscas lead turning and waste become a social stigma.
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Citizen last month, an article was asked if the landfill is reduced. We have to report faster and easier than ever for residents overflights our hotline and a new application for smartphones advice. And we use hidden cameras in hot and landfills are monitoring points. Following these initiatives, reported the number of overflights and recognized counseling significantly increased so that it is impossible to judge whether there are fewer reasons. Before the campaign, only 3% DMWC the streets of Croydon started taken in 48 hours. Moreover, additional tips can fly on other disks only overflights were counted as one. show our latest statistics show that we are now cleaned 85% of aerial surveys advice within 48 hours, which means that garbage all the time, it was not to stop there on our roads.
Pride is to take not only DMWC enforcement actions, however. We need to educate everyone about their responsibility for waste. A good example for this waste collection in time bands can be limiting at the curb for collection commercial waste the time companies. This will ensure that commercial garbage bags not left on the street, attracting more than necessary in a way that landfills. This initiative was a great success, and in the test area London Road, the amount of waste 75% from the floor reduced.
Another important element of the roads maintenance ordered to recycle encourages people. When people their containers are landfills recycle not often surplus, which has a major impact on the way looks a road. In March, we have an initiative to increase the recycling rate, with a visit to encourage officers Council neighborhoods people to recycle, and if there are obstacles to them.
We have a contract with Veolia negotiates harder than the highest standards, a garden waste service throughout the year and new equipment includes
We installed new BigBelly eighty containers in the busiest areas of the region, in the district centers and nearby stations people in the right place to put their garbage to help. Jogger to solar energy takes eight times to do the amount of waste from household waste, so they need less frequent emptying that our contractors frees the streets proactive to clean.
Another area of action in 2017 is our work with young people. We have developed lesson with DMWC message plans to charge different areas of the national program in the context, the training of young people of Croydon on the importance of waste management and care for their environment. These are already being tested in several primary schools in Croydon and we hope that the village scale to implement later this year. We have a competition for schools organized to encourage students to design posters for recycling with a message that will soon appear in our garbage trucks and waste BigBelly.
At the same time, the Council has invested £ 1.2 million in cleaning the street with fifty new electric vacuum cleaners, sweepers, four new cages, three trucks and two dump trucks mean to delete aerial surveys advice.
From 2018, a contract with Veolia is harder the highest standards, a service of garden waste during the year and new devices include is used to help Veolia to start these standards was negotiated to meet in advance.
With the support of the community of the Executive Board will continue to work hard to keep the streets of Croydon clean. Much has been done, but much remains to be done, and sets the campaign.
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