The Conservative administrations in Harrow have a somewhat troublesome history about the waste collection, seemingly because of its councillors responsible for this area of the council work.
The wheelie bins in Harrow were introduced by the marginal Conservative administration in 1989 on a trial basis with an assurance that these would not become permanent automatically. But then they did, causing serious backlash, as the sophisticated Harrow residents did not want the ‘bulking and ugly looking’ bin sitting in their front yard.
The Conservative administration in 2006 inherited the collection of the household waste using the Brown and Waste Bins system. But soon they decided to change in the frequency of collection of the Brown and Waste Bins. Not only this, but the then quick attention-seeking environmental portfolio holder recklessly moved the timetable for change from September 2006 to July 2006 to ‘further increase the council’s recycling performance’.
This waste bin collection arrangements became so unpopular that a Conservative seat in the Harrow Weald ward was badly lost in the August 2006 by-election that was held due to the death of the Tory councillor.
Later during their term of administration, Conservatives argued that they had been forced to introduce its three-bin system to improve the recycling rates needed to counter the rise of landfill taxes imposed by the Government.
Their claim that recycling rates in Harrow were 4 per cent before the council brought in wheelie bins, and are now 38 per cent, was misleading as they failed to point out the ‘before’ figures were 20 years old – Harrow introduced the bins in 1989.
In June 2009 the MailOnline also reported that Town hall chiefs were accused of pedalling ‘spurious propaganda’ after claiming that wheelie bins boosted recycling rates.
Eventually and because of the accumulated backlash of the waste collection arrangements and heavy-handed implementation of the CPZ (controlled parking zone) under the same Conservative portfolio holder for the environment, Tories lost the council in 2010.
In 2015, the council chose to roll out the Straight’s 7 litre kitchen caddy and kerbside caddy (food waste bin) to Harrow properties, apparently to improve the recycling rates.
The collection of the food waste bins looked steady but is now less satisfactory under the new council administration (Tory), like as indicated by the resident comments on the Harrow council Facebook page that reported ‘since launching food waste recycling in flats last summer, we have now delivered kitchen caddies to 4,000 flats in Harrow’!
“Shame they don’t get collected from houses, mine is missed more often than not!! Fed up with reporting it and still not being collected!!” a comment.
“What has happened to the food waste collections? Until four weeks ago, our bin was missed once since it started. A fortnight ago and yesterday our road was missed? Yet each time it is marked as completed on the website. It means the website is pointless as someone just pretend the bins have been collected” another comment.
Like before, the quality of the environmental services is the most worrying under the present (Con) portfolio-holder as well.
The wheelie bins in Harrow were introduced by the marginal Conservative administration in 1989 on a trial basis with an assurance that these would not become permanent automatically. But then they did, causing serious backlash, as the sophisticated Harrow residents did not want the ‘bulking and ugly looking’ bin sitting in their front yard.
The Conservative administration in 2006 inherited the collection of the household waste using the Brown and Waste Bins system. But soon they decided to change in the frequency of collection of the Brown and Waste Bins. Not only this, but the then quick attention-seeking environmental portfolio holder recklessly moved the timetable for change from September 2006 to July 2006 to ‘further increase the council’s recycling performance’.
This waste bin collection arrangements became so unpopular that a Conservative seat in the Harrow Weald ward was badly lost in the August 2006 by-election that was held due to the death of the Tory councillor.
Later during their term of administration, Conservatives argued that they had been forced to introduce its three-bin system to improve the recycling rates needed to counter the rise of landfill taxes imposed by the Government.
Their claim that recycling rates in Harrow were 4 per cent before the council brought in wheelie bins, and are now 38 per cent, was misleading as they failed to point out the ‘before’ figures were 20 years old – Harrow introduced the bins in 1989.
In June 2009 the MailOnline also reported that Town hall chiefs were accused of pedalling ‘spurious propaganda’ after claiming that wheelie bins boosted recycling rates.
Eventually and because of the accumulated backlash of the waste collection arrangements and heavy-handed implementation of the CPZ (controlled parking zone) under the same Conservative portfolio holder for the environment, Tories lost the council in 2010.
In 2015, the council chose to roll out the Straight’s 7 litre kitchen caddy and kerbside caddy (food waste bin) to Harrow properties, apparently to improve the recycling rates.
The collection of the food waste bins looked steady but is now less satisfactory under the new council administration (Tory), like as indicated by the resident comments on the Harrow council Facebook page that reported ‘since launching food waste recycling in flats last summer, we have now delivered kitchen caddies to 4,000 flats in Harrow’!“Shame they don’t get collected from houses, mine is missed more often than not!! Fed up with reporting it and still not being collected!!” a comment.
“What has happened to the food waste collections? Until four weeks ago, our bin was missed once since it started. A fortnight ago and yesterday our road was missed? Yet each time it is marked as completed on the website. It means the website is pointless as someone just pretend the bins have been collected” another comment.
Like before, the quality of the environmental services is the most worrying under the present (Con) portfolio-holder as well.
Harrow Monitoring Group 
Harrow residents don’t have the stomach to suffer anymore from the attention seeking primadonas apparently poncing around as portfolio holders! Enough of this playing to the gallery by opportunist characters who need to get their act together or be told to do so fortwith by those who should know better!
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