The council backed down and agreed to keep our weekly bin collections. This victory belongs to the 1,423 people who signed this petition and demanded better for our streets. Keep watching the council meetings to ensure they actually follow through on this promise.
August 27, 2018
Support our campaign to continue weekly rubbish collections and to clean up #muckymerton
Final supporters
The Labour Council want to enforce fortnightly bin collections and the use of large, expensive wheelie bins. Merton Conservatives are therefore campaigning for the following:
- Continue the existing arrangement for weekly rubbish collections, without the compulsory imposition of wheelie bins
- Reintroduce weekly street cleaning
If you support our campaign to continue weekly rubbish collections and to clean up #muckymerton , then please sign up below.
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Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
July 29, 2018
July 25, 2018
We hit one hundred signatures today because people are fed up with messy streets and service cuts. Post this link on your Facebook feed right now so we can stop this council policy.
Reached 100 supporters
July 24, 2018
July 22, 2018
We are pushing hard to hit our first hundred signatures before we take this to the council. Post the link to your Facebook feed right now and text three neighbors to get them on board.
709 Comments
Whilst we are recycling a lot more, reducing the general waste and glass collections to twice monthly is not acceptable. There are 5 flats in our block and all of the glass/bottle /plastic/recycling containers are already full with a week to go.
I do not want 3 wheely bins inc gdn plus 2 recycling boxes and a food caddy outside my property - this will bring the house prices down. After parking we can hardly get in our front door without these so I definitely don’t have room being mid terraced.
In small properties particularly these huge bins will be unwieldy, unsightly, unhygienic and awkward for older residents. How can an older person be expected to drag such a full heavy bin up or down an incline when they live on a hill or significant slope.
I live in a conservation area where there is a covenant that forbids the use of wheelie bins in our road. I have written to the council pointing this out but received merely a stock reply that did not mention nor address our situation at all
Also, people that have a large garden bin and pay for this service, will in fact be storing FIVE bins in their front garden. This is another ludicrous and poorly thought out decision wasting thousands of pounds by this inept Labour Council.
I’m all for recycling however because of the manner in which the system has been imposed with a clear lack of planning, we now have a reduced service for the same cost. Work that one out!!! Merton council is inept and well known for it. It’s about time the councillors are held accountable for a change and rather than parading themselves at events etc. on social media and in the local news, actually got on with their day jobs. Where else in life would you be happy to pay the same amount of money for a far reduced service? Before you know they will be switching off street lamps at 7pm to reduce costs.
We still don’t have the new bins and put rubbish collection is still getting missed! I am so fed up!
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The council backed down and agreed to keep our weekly bin collections. This victory belongs to the 1,423 people who signed this petition and demanded better for our streets. Keep watching the council meetings to ensure they actually follow through on this promise.
August 27, 2018
Support our campaign to continue weekly rubbish collections and to clean up #muckymerton
Final supporters
The Labour Council want to enforce fortnightly bin collections and the use of large, expensive wheelie bins. Merton Conservatives are therefore campaigning for the following:
- Continue the existing arrangement for weekly rubbish collections, without the compulsory imposition of wheelie bins
- Reintroduce weekly street cleaning
If you support our campaign to continue weekly rubbish collections and to clean up #muckymerton , then please sign up below.
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Promoted by David Jones on behalf of Wimbledon Conservatives, both of 3 Summerstown, London, SW17 0BQ
Please only provide us with your Email if you consent to being contacted by us in this way.
Your data will be used by the Wandsworth & Wimbledon Conservative Party as part of our democratic engagement with electors. Where necessary, your data may be shared with Conservative Party Headquarters, our candidates and elected representatives. It will not be given or sold to anyone else. For more information please see our privacy notice available at https://www.mertonconservatives.org/privacy
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
July 29, 2018
July 25, 2018
We hit one hundred signatures today because people are fed up with messy streets and service cuts. Post this link on your Facebook feed right now so we can stop this council policy.
Reached 100 supporters
July 24, 2018
July 22, 2018
We are pushing hard to hit our first hundred signatures before we take this to the council. Post the link to your Facebook feed right now and text three neighbors to get them on board.
709 Comments
Our bins are overflowing by Sunday night and this summer we were overrun with maggots. Goodness knows what it will be like with collections changing to every fortnight. I take it we will be getting lower rates for this new reduced service.
Whilst we are recycling a lot more, reducing the general waste and glass collections to twice monthly is not acceptable. There are 5 flats in our block and all of the glass/bottle /plastic/recycling containers are already full with a week to go.
I do not want 3 wheely bins inc gdn plus 2 recycling boxes and a food caddy outside my property - this will bring the house prices down. After parking we can hardly get in our front door without these so I definitely don’t have room being mid terraced.
In small properties particularly these huge bins will be unwieldy, unsightly, unhygienic and awkward for older residents. How can an older person be expected to drag such a full heavy bin up or down an incline when they live on a hill or significant slope.
I live in a conservation area where there is a covenant that forbids the use of wheelie bins in our road. I have written to the council pointing this out but received merely a stock reply that did not mention nor address our situation at all
Also, people that have a large garden bin and pay for this service, will in fact be storing FIVE bins in their front garden. This is another ludicrous and poorly thought out decision wasting thousands of pounds by this inept Labour Council.
I’m all for recycling however because of the manner in which the system has been imposed with a clear lack of planning, we now have a reduced service for the same cost. Work that one out!!! Merton council is inept and well known for it. It’s about time the councillors are held accountable for a change and rather than parading themselves at events etc. on social media and in the local news, actually got on with their day jobs. Where else in life would you be happy to pay the same amount of money for a far reduced service? Before you know they will be switching off street lamps at 7pm to reduce costs.
We still don’t have the new bins and put rubbish collection is still getting missed! I am so fed up!
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Our bins are overflowing by Sunday night and this summer we were overrun with maggots. Goodness knows what it will be like with collections changing to every fortnight. I take it we will be getting lower rates for this new reduced service.