Environment

Dear Croydon Council I wonder whether you have ever been on the rounds with your refuse collectors and re-cyclers? It’s all speed and no quality. It’s like some kind of waste race. Usain Bolt has nothing on the speed with which your refuse people zoom up the roads, into and out of each path, bang, crash, chuck, whack, and hey presto there’s a wake of rubbish to mark their passing. Do you tell them that they must be back at the depot by midday or they will lose their jobs? Or they won’t get a Christmas bonus or something? They pelt along the roads, half-emptying bins, often missing recycling boxes if they are out of their eye-line as they lope along trying to beat Roger Bannister’s four minute mile! Is it efficient? Well I’m not advocating that these guys (and are there any bin-women...